Hello, I've finally managed to make my CanoScan LiDE20 USB work under Linux, using sane-backends version 1.0.16 - the last version made it jam. I think the changes done between versions 16 and 17 to whatever backend it is that controls CanoScan devices should be reverted. However, I can only use the scanner as root, and the directions at http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux do not help at all, since I don't have and cannot install hotplug, and backends 1.0.16 come without any udev rules file. If only the last version didn't jam this scanner, life would be much easier.
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