Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
25-Jan-08 – Blogger meetup at Gene’s Haufbrau.
26/27-Jan-08 – Charleston Kennel Club Dog Show and CSCLRC‘s Supported Entry
After all the equipment testing I’ve been doing the last two weeks, I could use a few beers.
The dog show is always a fun event to check out. The Lab Club’s show is outside in a separate ring. Hopefully it doesn’t rain on us like it did last year.
This week I did surveys on:
All in preparation for the opening of the new hospital building. I still have two rad/fluoro rooms, 4 c-arms and 3 SPECT/CT scanners left to survey.
I’m pooped.
It will be interesting to see what this month’s radiation badge reading ends up being.
I have a feeling I may be surfing E-Bay in the near future for a used T3 to replace mine. The digitizer on mine is starting to go wacky, and to get it to work properly, I have to squeeze the sides.
I suppose I could take it apart to make sure everything is connected properly. The T3’s aren’t quite as trivial to disassemble as the Visors were though.
Simba’s discovered that the two toilets in the house are great places to get water when he’s feeling too lazy to walk over to the proper water bowl in the kitchen or use the water bottle in his crate.
One problem is that he’s a really messy drinker, and ends up soaking the mats and dripping all over the place.
The other problem is that I usually put those Clorox toilet tabs in the tank to help keep things clean. Probably not too healthy for him to be drinking the water.
One more reason to remember to keep the lid down.
Took a few days of research on various web forums and tinkering around with the system, but I finally managed to get the scanner (Epson Perfection V200) working under Fedora 8. Now it’s not a paperweight anymore! One more thing to take off the list. Woot!
In the hopes that this might help someone else who runs into this (or a similar problem), I’ll describe what worked for me.
Started off with using yum to install the SANE packages, but didn’t get anywhere with that. More Google and forum searching led me to the epkowa drivers (iscan-2.8.0-1.c2) so I downloaded and installed those. Got a little further, but still no joy.
Finally I uninstalled all the SANE and iscan stuff (which ended up uninstalling the printer drivers too, but those were easy to put back) and just installed iscan. That got me to the point where I could run iscan as root and scan stuff, but not as a regular user. Then I found a tip on a forum to edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and comment out the epson line. Finally, scanner joy!
iscan doesn’t have nearly as many features as Epson’s Windows software but it works, I can use the scanner and it’s not a $70 paperweight anymore.
Summary (this is what worked for me):
yum remove sane xsane. On my system it also removed my printer drivers (hpijs and hplip), but they can be reinstalled afterwards.rpm -ivh iscan-xxx.rpm/etc/sane.d/dll.conf and comment out the epson line. Make sure there’s a line that says ‘epkowa’ and that it’s uncommented.