Yes,well...my commiserations.I filed a bug report with suse over this and their answer:
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--- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2009-02-11 05:01:06 MST ---
The Canon Pixma MP520 scanner unit is currently not
supported by a SANE scanner driver which we provide
for openSUSE 11.1.
Therefore you wrote
"Canon provides linux drivers for this device".
I.e. you use a third-party scanner driver software.
It is a well known drawback of third-party drivers
that they may no longer work for a new openSUSE version
because of whatever special assumptions in the driver.
We cannot adapt their drivers for a new openSUSE version.
Therefore you must go to Canon and ask them,
if anything goes wrong with their driver
for openSUSE 11.1
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My answer to that(but it doesn't really matter)
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Well,I really find this unacceptable.If the scanner worked with suse 10.2 and
10.3 it should work with 11.1.Later suse versions (and any other distro for
that matter)are supposed to build and expand on what they have and provide
support for even more devices than in the earlier versions.
The problem is with opensuse 11.1 not with Canon. They provided driversthat
worked with your earlier versions.It is quite normal one should expect they
work with later versions of the OS.This is really bad policy.Bye bye Suse.
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So end of story I suppose unless somebody comes up with a solution. I still find their answer amazing and not at all linux-like.
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