It's flat and it's perfect scanner!
In Slackware 10.1 with sane-1.0.15 it just works.
All you need is hotplug on, if not:
Code:
# chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug
and write permissions on the scanner for use with Xsane:
Code:
# chmod 666 /dev/usb/scanner0
The images are beautiful!