Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

["Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Pongracz Istvan
<pongracz.istvan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 15.05-kor Paul Hartman ezt írta:
>
>> > Dude, I am tired.............. :)
>>
>> Congratulations and enjoy your VMware until the next kernel release
>> breaks everything again. :P
>>
>> Paul
>
> Thank you Pauk :)
>
> I think, it is better to get a linux friendly scanner to avoid using
> vmware again.
> Even they wrote, enjoy vmware, I can't. Not on my desktop to use this
> bloody scanner nor on some servers.
> We will migrate from vmware to openvz soon. There are some stupid
> problems with vmware. For example the clock rate is different in the
> same guest on two identical hosts (hardware+os). On one host the
> internal clock working "well", but on the other host (same hardware/OS)
> the clock speed is double. The mentioned solution did not work, of
> course.
>
> Anyway, if somebody has a working (but retired) linux friendly scanner
> and he/she did not (or will) use it, please send it to me :)
>
> Thank you and Happy New Year,
> István

I don't know your specific needs when it comes to scanning, but a few
years ago (2005) I got an Epson Perfection 2400 on eBay for about $15
USD. It is USB and has worked great with Gentoo (media-gfx/iscan)...
Epson seems to have an active Linux driver development team with
releases usually every month, and you can check their website for
recently added scanners to the supported list. I have not used any
other scanner in Linux, but so far I am perfectly happy with this
Epson (especially for $15).

http://avasys.jp/english/linux_e/

Regards,
Paul