Comment 242 for bug 85488

The reason we are so upset is that we want to support Ubuntu and
therefore we are surprised that Fiesty was issued with the development
team knowing there was a difficulty.
If there had been a clear warning e.g. : "Don't upgrade to Fiesty if
you want to use a xsane or similar scanner" then we (your
customers/clients) could have taken an informed decision and probably
waited for the next issue.
Now you have a lot of very miffed people who are complaining and
probably a lot more who have not complained but just ditched Ubuntu as
too much trouble to mess around with a fix that it shouldn't need.
NB I am using Mandriva 2007 as it lets me use my scanner - It is not
perfect but then we all know only MS is - until Gutsy appears of course
regards
Mervyn Mitchell
Probably I am not using the right protocol for this site but then why
should I bother when courtesy of proper information is missing?

silentb wrote:
> Please, CALM DOWN. If this were as easy to fix, it would have been done
> by the kernel team. Btw, it's just not true that only Ubuntu has this
> problem.
>
> The problem has been fixed for the next version of the linux kernel, but
> you have to unterstand that they cannot just send out a new kernel
> version via apt-get without testing it a while. In case you urgently
> need your scanner, you might try compiling your own kernel:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.22-rc3.tar.bz2
>
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