Comment 5 for bug 106776

It seems I rushed to a conclusion. I managed to get a preview from xsane and I don't get the error message anymore, but I still can't scan using xsane. Sometimes the preview worksm but mostly not, scanning never works. I get no error messages, getting a preview takes some time and returns a fully black image. Same with scanning, no error message I get the nice progress bar and when it completes I get a black image. No noise from the scanner.

Using scanimage seems to consistently work fine though, I have googled some and searched the sane mailinglists but no luck there.