I have the same problem with an Epson Perfection V10. It works at 8 bit color depth, 800 dpi, but anything higher (1200 dpi or 16 bit color depth) will produce this message. I've seen it happening around an image size of 350MB, while I have 2GB RAM (1.7 GB free).
-- xsane reports "Failed to start scanner: Out of memory" at 1200 dpi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/47024 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs