Just to let you know that I have got the scanner on my RX620 working without much trouble. This mail is mainly ... a BIG thank you to Johannes Meixner ... for his help on the list and for the excellent printing and scanning guides on the Suse portal. For the record here's what I did. I'm running Suse 9.3 on an Athlon 64: uname -a Linux piglet 2.6.11.4-21.10-default #1 Tue Nov 29 14:32:49 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I Checked in YaST that sane was installed (packman 1.0.17-0.pm.0) and sane-32 (SUSE 9.3-7) I checked that the scanner could be detected: sane-find-scanner -v -v which said (amongst lots of other stuff): found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0811 [USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)]) at libusb:001:003 I installed Johanne's test iscan from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jsmeix/unsupported/iscan/9.3/RPMS/: rpm -i iscan-free-1.17.0.1-1.1.x86_64.rpm I uncommented "epkowa" in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. And it worked! At this point scanimage could see the scanner: scanimage -L device `epkowa:libusb:001:002' is a Epson Stylus Photo RX620/RX630 flatbed scanner And I'm able to access the scanner with xsane. Once again, huge thanks, Johannes. Cheers, Dave