Comment 205 for bug 85488

Same problem occurring with my Epson Perfection 1670. When I load Xsane, I get ONE good scan and then the scanner locks out. The power button goes from steady green to flashing red and I have to reboot before it resets.

This scanner worked perfectly under Edgy and has only failed since upgrading to Feisty. I have managed to get scans working by using scanimage from the command line, but it's far from adequate.

The much repeated comment that providing a suspend/resume facility for laptop users ranks above the fact that this leaves potentially thousands of scanner users with broken systems is ludicrous. The fact that this bug was well known before Feisty was released is even more surprising. Since when is it OK to provide a new feature at the expense of another? Suspend resume is a 'nice to have' feature - whilst a scanner is a major item of hardware in regular (and often important) use.