Hello All, I have managed to do a scan with scanimage from the command line, this was what worked for me. <quote> I experience the same problem with 1.0.27-3.2. Inspecting the udev rules, I found that the file 60-libsane.rules is missing a line to apply permissions to the device if it has been recognized. Such a line is present towards the file’s end in older versions: ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", RUN+="/bin/setfacl -m g:scanner:rw $env{DEVNAME}" Putting this line into a file /etc/udev/rules.d/65-libsane.rules allows scanners to be recognized normally after a reboot. -Juergen <endquote> I copied the line and put it in the correct file, owned by root, and group of root, and it is working. There are no other files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ where I was expecting to find some. I then unplugged the scanner, and plugged it back in. This is the LIDE 210, and tomorrow I will try the LIDE 120 that the earlier backends for sane would not support. Regards, Mark Trickett