Comment 302 for bug 85488

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1. Open Applications, then Terminal.
2. A box should appear. In the box, type "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" (without quotes) and hit enter.
3. Look about halfway down for a line that starts "# defoptions=" (without quotes; NOTE: use the line with ONE "#" symbol)
4. At the end of this line, add a space, then "usbcore.autosuspend=0" (without quotes)
5. Save and quit gedit.
6. In the box you used earlier, type "sudo /usr/sbin/update-grub" and hit enter.
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Dear Chang, your method did not work with my Cannon LIDE 20 on Feisty. In fact, before trying the usbcore.autosuspend thing, I was at least getting the preview, now both 'preview' and 'scan' in xsane are generating blank black pages. Maybe this black blank preview happened somewhere down the line with some interim upgrade: did check it quite some time back. Earlier in Ubuntu I was getting the previw well, but scans giving be the black blank thing. I don't know what this scanner rigmarole means. It is really too much for an absolute UN-developer user like me. What I did was getting a partition blank and installing SuSE 10.2 there. It is working fine with my scan jobs. When I have them, I boot into SuSE.