Hi all, recently I had problems with my old EPSON 1670 Scanner, because it doesn't support usb autosuspend that most distros enable by default in the linux kernel. That causes scanimage or other applications (e.g. like scanner button daemon scanbd) to freeze or even reading wrong values.
If anyone is interested: I have put some hints in README.txt of scanbd. You can find it at http://scanbd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scanbd/trunk/doc/?sortby=rev HTH, -- Wilhelm