Do you have the package scanbuttond installed? See #598102 at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598102 , which could be the problem you run into. (In that case, removing the scanbuttond package should solve the problem and make the scanner usable again, but that unfortunately makes the buttons on the scanner useless, you'll have to operate it through software like sane instead.) -- Andreas Rönnquist gusnan@gusnan.se