Hi out there:-) I got a brand new Epson 1660 Photo scanner. It works great, once it is configured as an Epson 1650 Photo .. which appears to me, was the predecessor model. Xsane immediately offers both possibilities -flatbed and film- once the scanner is configured. So here come the issues: - It will not be autodetected by YaST2 OK, I do survive that. - It is uninstalled by the 'HW scan on boot' each time I reboot OK, I could disable this somewhere in YaST2 - The machine seems to like to freeze once I either installed it manually or HW scan uninstalled it. I can't disable that:-(( The sane version which ships with 8.1 seems to be 1.0.8 I found out, that in the meantime, 1.0.9-pre is available. Will 1.0.9 include this new Epson model? And would this improve the problems mentioned above? What are your ideas? Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net Linux ... the better OS!