scanners

[norman]

> > You may remember that when 7.04 was launched certain USB scanners
> > stopped working and, so far, continue not to work. Could I be told
> > whether this matter is being followed up and rectified in the next
> > Ubuntu release?
> > 
> 
> I can unfortunately not answer your direct question. But when I
> investigated my issues with my Canon Lide 20 I found some information on
> the net. 
> 
> By loading the program scanbuttond before I start Xsane the scanner
> start working again. It is not a pretty solution but at least I can scan
> again.
> 
> The package is called scanbuttond and can be found in Universe.

Thanks, my scanner is the same as yours. Presently, I wait until I have
a batch to scan, then I restart 7.04 using the kernel from 6.10 and
scanner works as it should. 

Norman