I just wanted to praise whoever wrote the scanner autodetection stuff.

I've a Mustek BearPaw (OK, I'm a cheapskate) which usually takes something like 1/2 hour to set up in SuSE (and that's when I can get the evil YaST to co-operate). It's a moderately tricky device to set up because although it's a Mustek it uses the Plustek drivers.........

Anyway, Knoppix recognises it immediately and all that's necessary is to apt-get install xsane (Mustek's don't like xscanimage).

Great stuff!