billowy, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases 9.10 is EOL.
If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 377977 XSane and SANE do not maintain a proper connection with many Epson scanners ** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521827 Title: SCSI Epson GT 7000 Scanner Does Not Work Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: The SCSI Epson GT 7000 Scanner is detected when first logging on and running 'sane-find-scanner' but no programs seem to be able to communicate with the scanner. As soon as any program trys to use the scanner, the connection is lost. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login 2. Connect scanner and turn it on 3. Run 'sane-find-scanner' and it is found 4. Attempt to use the scanner with XSane or 'scanimage' Expected Results: The software should be able to communicate with the scanner and retrieve the scanned image. Experienced Results: The connection to the scanner is lost by SANE and no programs are able to use the scanner. DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 This has not yet been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/521827/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp