Comment 188 for bug 85488

Well, I tried again this morning, and it was back to the usual. Obviously I must have done something yesterday to enable it. I didn't have time for a lot of trial and error this morning, but I managed to get it to work again... once. If somebody wants to follow up on that, here are the steps involved:

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
reconnect scanner
sane-find-scanner
scanimage -L
scan from the commandline
run Xsane

But again, it only works once, making it fairly useless. Yesterday I was able to repeat it.

And there is definetely something wrong with the USB drivers/kernel: I have a combination mouse/keyboard with a single USB plug, and now the keyboard will not work after booting (but the mouse will!?) unless I 1) hammer the keys during the boot to kepp it active 2) unplug & reconnect the combo after the boot. Good luck trying the second option with a laptop... so it definitely goes beyond a little scanner problem.