Comment # 25 on bug 905034 from Johannes Meixner

Regarding the genesys driver we also got bug#897855 (different symptoms)
but there it also had worked on a 13.1 system.

According to
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897855#c5
it seems something was fixed regarding the genesys driver
in a recent development snapshot at SANE upstream.

I made sane-backends version git20150108 RPMs an unstable
development source only for testing, without any guarantee
or warranty, and without any support in my openSUSE build service
home project "home:jsmeix".

Please read
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:jsmeix

You can get the packages in the "home:jsmeix" project
for example for openSUSE 13.2 from this direct URL
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/openSUSE_13.2/

When you like to upgrade an installed sane-backends 1.0.23 or 1.0.24
to sane-backends development version git20150108 you need to install
version git20150108 with plain rpm using "--force" e.g. like
# rpm -Uhv --force sane-backends-git20150108-2.1.x86_64.rpm
because for rpm the version number git2015010 is lower than
the installed version number 1.0.23 or 1.0.24.

For my scanner that uses the plustek driver sane-backends development
version git20150108 still works for me.

Perhaps you are a venturous openSUSE user who likes to try out
if sane-backends development version git20150108 works for you?
If you like to try it out, please report whether or not it works for you.

Many thanks in advance for testing it and for your feedback!

Caution:
When you try it out and your scanner makes bad-sounding noises
the usual reason is that the scanner's internal moving parts
"do bad things" which means the scanner hardware could get damaged.