The same message appears for me with an old Acer scanner that has worked fine up to now.
On a system with 1 GB RAM, 2 GB swap, xsane the only extra app running, even when scanning in scan mode Gray with 50 dpi, I get the same message. xsane 0.99+0.991-1ubuntu2 (feisty) -- 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
