Comment 13 for bug 485551

My 64bit laptop running (Lucid Lynx 10.04) Simple Scan and libsane 1.0.20 worked fine on my father's Canon LiDE 50 scanner.

He was having all sorts of problems on his i386 desktop XP installation, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to try and ween him onto nutritious Ubuntu 9.10.

Unfortunately the scanner wouldn't work correctly.

Some googling later (I hadn't come across this post) I decided to upgrade the i386 to Lucid 10.04.
However the problems still persisted:

The backend Simple Scan, scans the document but it scans it at twice the resolution, or put it another way it puts an A4 page on half of the Simple Scan output and then hits the stops and tries to do what it thinks is the other half by trying to scan past the stops (as it did on 9.10).

Xsane backend doesn't illuminate the lamp or drive the scanner along the document.

Having found this post, I followed the instructions by ih and replaced libsane with the earlier version but with exactly the same outcome.

Are there configuration settings that can be adjusted so that Simple Scan doesn't try and drive through the end stops?