After making changes to my configuration to enable another USB device, Xsane is now working too!
The 2 things involved were:
1) Setting up a rule in udev for that device (I don't think that would affect the scanner)
2) Adding myself to the plugdev group (gpasswd -a username plugdev) & restarting.
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After making changes to my configuration to enable another USB device, Xsane is now working too!
The 2 things involved were:
1) Setting up a rule in udev for that device (I don't think that would affect the scanner)
2) Adding myself to the plugdev group (gpasswd -a username plugdev) & restarting.