[gentoo-user] Running xsane

[gentoo-user] Running xsane

[CJoeB]

Hi everyone,

I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and
copier.  I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the
unstable version of hplip.  The copy mechanism works also.  However, I
am having trouble with the scanner.  I again have installed unstable
versions (i.e. ~x86) versions of sane-backends and xsane).  If I run
xsane as root, the scanner is recognized.  However, if I run xsane as a
normal user, the device is not recognized.  I can't seem to figure out
what to change to rectify this - I've tried changing the owner and group
on the xsane executable, but this didn't work.  The permissions for the
xsane executable seem fine.  I have added myself to the "scanner" group,
but this doesn't seem to have any affect.  Also, despite the fact that
the device can be set up wirelessly, I have not done this - I have the
unit connected to my computer via USB cable.

Any of you gurus have any ideas?

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

[J. Roeleveld]

On Monday 15 February 2010 00:34:42 CJoeB wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and
> copier.  I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the
> unstable version of hplip.  The copy mechanism works also.  However, I
> am having trouble with the scanner.  I again have installed unstable
> versions (i.e. ~x86) versions of sane-backends and xsane).  If I run
> xsane as root, the scanner is recognized.  However, if I run xsane as a
> normal user, the device is not recognized.  I can't seem to figure out
> what to change to rectify this - I've tried changing the owner and group
> on the xsane executable, but this didn't work.  The permissions for the
> xsane executable seem fine.  I have added myself to the "scanner" group,
> but this doesn't seem to have any affect.  Also, despite the fact that
> the device can be set up wirelessly, I have not done this - I have the
> unit connected to my computer via USB cable.
> 
> Any of you gurus have any ideas?

Hi Colleen,

I also have one of those All-In-One printers.
To get it to work, I added the "saned" user to the following groups:
- lp
- usb
- scanner

I'm not sure, but I think "usb" is sufficient for the scanner, but with these, 
it works on my system.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:34:42 -0500, CJoeB wrote:

> I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and
> copier.  I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the
> unstable version of hplip.  The copy mechanism works also.  However, I
> am having trouble with the scanner.  I again have installed unstable
> versions (i.e. ~x86) versions of sane-backends and xsane).  If I run
> xsane as root, the scanner is recognized.  However, if I run xsane as a
> normal user, the device is not recognized.

Your scanner's dev node has can only be read by root, the easiest way to
fix this is with a udev rule, as the node name changes each time you
connect the scanner. This rule works for me, I'm in the canner group,
just change the product and manufacturer strings to match

SYSFS{product}=="CanoScan", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Canon", GROUP:="scanner", MODE:="0660"


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Neil Bothwick

When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said...
"Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a
blanket And sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."


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Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 15 February 2010 08:58:03 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> When told the reason for Daylight [Savings Time] the old Indian
> said..."Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off
> the top of a blanket And sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a
> longer blanket."

He was wrong, understandably. He should not have included all white men 
in that set. Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by 
adjusting our clocks.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

[gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Enrico Weigelt]

Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks.

When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here
in Germany, there're lots of them who still believe in that
insane idea of messing up the clocks would bring anything but
useless hassle. I really wonder if there's some hidden lobby
which benefits from this crap or it's really just stupidity ;-O


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Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Zeerak Waseem]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:15:14 +0100, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>  
wrote:

> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks.
>
> When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here
> in Germany, there're lots of them who still believe in that
> insane idea of messing up the clocks would bring anything but
> useless hassle. I really wonder if there's some hidden lobby
> which benefits from this crap or it's really just stupidity ;-O
>
>
> cu

Well daylight savings do make sense. The idea isn't as much to gain hours  
in a day, we have 24 hours in a day. The idea is for the body to follow  
the rhythm of the day. Noon is when the sun is at its highest. Depending  
on how the sun is positioned in comparison to the earth. So it makes sense  
with daylight savings, although it does mean that I go to school when it's  
dark and come home after dark.

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Zeerak

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:15:14 +0100, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
> 
> wrote:
> > Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks.
> > 
> > When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here
> > in Germany, there're lots of them who still believe in that
> > insane idea of messing up the clocks would bring anything but
> > useless hassle. I really wonder if there's some hidden lobby
> > which benefits from this crap or it's really just stupidity ;-O
> > 
> > 
> > cu
> 
> Well daylight savings do make sense. The idea isn't as much to gain hours
> in a day, we have 24 hours in a day. The idea is for the body to follow
> the rhythm of the day. Noon is when the sun is at its highest. Depending
> on how the sun is positioned in comparison to the earth. So it makes sense
> with daylight savings, although it does mean that I go to school when it's
> dark and come home after dark.

no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense. With 
daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing time puts a 
lot of stress on the body.

For health reasons it should be scrapped. For energy saving reasons even more 
so.

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense.
> With daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing
> time puts a lot of stress on the body.

But it means you spend more of your waking hours in daylight (unless
you're a postman or milkman), which has both health and environmental
benefits. That leaves the question of the problems caused by the twice
yearly changeover, which can easily be eliminated by running an hour
ahead all year round, something that was tried in the UK some 40 years
ago and abandoned.

Of course, the whole thing of the tagline came about because of the name,
you are not saving daylight at all. In the UK, it's called Summer Time,
probably because that means we can tell when it's summer by checking the
clock settings :)


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UNILINGUAL: American.

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Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense.
> > With daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing
> > time puts a lot of stress on the body.
> 
> But it means you spend more of your waking hours in daylight (unless
> you're a postman or milkman), which has both health and environmental
> benefits

not really. If I have to get up at 4am in the morning to reach my job at 7 the 
difference at morning is negligible. And in the evening? Since I am home early, 
no difference at all.

And environmental benefits? Are you kidding? There are no energy savings with 
day light savings. More lights are used in the morning. More energy used for 
heaters. If daylight saving would reduce energy usage, it would have been 
banned decades ago.


> Of course, the whole thing of the tagline came about because of the name,
> you are not saving daylight at all. In the UK, it's called Summer Time,
> probably because that means we can tell when it's summer by checking the
> clock settings :)

It is called summertime in Germany too. I am living in more rural Germany - 
and the cows are not very happy about it. Neither are the farmers.

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>      
>>> no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense.
>>> With daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing
>>> time puts a lot of stress on the body.
>>>        
>> But it means you spend more of your waking hours in daylight (unless
>> you're a postman or milkman), which has both health and environmental
>> benefits
>>      
> not really. If I have to get up at 4am in the morning to reach my job at 7 the
> difference at morning is negligible. And in the evening? Since I am home early,
> no difference at all.
>
> And environmental benefits? Are you kidding? There are no energy savings with
> day light savings. More lights are used in the morning. More energy used for
> heaters. If daylight saving would reduce energy usage, it would have been
> banned decades ago.
>
>
>    
>> Of course, the whole thing of the tagline came about because of the name,
>> you are not saving daylight at all. In the UK, it's called Summer Time,
>> probably because that means we can tell when it's summer by checking the
>> clock settings :)
>>      
> It is called summertime in Germany too. I am living in more rural Germany -
> and the cows are not very happy about it. Neither are the farmers.
>
>    

Just picking the last post.  This is what I hate about DST.  My old VCR 
was doing fine until they changed the schedule here.  Since I can't 
re-program my VCR with the new schedule, I had to disable DST thingy and 
do it manually.

I would rather see this stupid thing gone.  It doesn't make the grass 
grow any greener plus it makes people have to run around and reset all 
the clocks and crap, not just once a year but twice a year.

The only good thing, it helps some people remember to replace the 
battery in the smoke detector.  Of course, one could come up with a 
better way of doing that too.  Most of them beep for weeks when it gets 
low, which is ironic since the beeping runs the battery down.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-02-17, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Monday 15 February 2010 08:58:03 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> He was wrong, understandably. He should not have included all
> white men in that set. Outside USA we have no illusions of
> saving time by adjusting our clocks.

Let's be fair about it.  Here in the US, we don't have the
illusion of saving _time_.  We have the illusion of saving
_energy_.

And just think of all of the geeks it employs everytime
somebody in DC thinks it's a good idea to futz with the
settings.  I personally know of somebody who spent a couple
weeks developing, testing, committing, and pushing out a patch
for a commercial Unix whose name I won't mention.

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                                  at               CUISINE when 3 olives are
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Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:36:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> > But it means you spend more of your waking hours in daylight (unless
> > you're a postman or milkman), which has both health and environmental
> > benefits  
> 
> not really. If I have to get up at 4am in the morning to reach my job
> at 7 the difference at morning is negligible. And in the evening? Since
> I am home early, no difference at all.

Then you fit into the postman and milkman exception :)

I'm in the opposite category, I'm a late riser so it suits me.

The move away from "standard" working hours has made this less relevant,
but still the majority see more of the daylight if the clocks are shifted
forward.

> And environmental benefits? Are you kidding? There are no energy
> savings with day light savings. More lights are used in the morning.
> More energy used for heaters. If daylight saving would reduce energy
> usage, it would have been banned decades ago.

Modern "green" building make better use of natural light, so there are
benefits to having as much of the working day in daylight as possible.
But once again this is less relevant ion these days of flexible working.

> It is called summertime in Germany too. I am living in more rural
> Germany - and the cows are not very happy about it. Neither are the
> farmers.

What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers
working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are
they going to start considering the environment?


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Monday is the root of all evil!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 17 February 2010 15:53:04 Grant Edwards wrote:

> Let's be fair about it.  Here in the US, we don't have the
> illusion of saving _time_.

No, you miss the point. The name implies saving daylight, not time. Show 
me anyone who can do that. (And I won't ask why Saving has to be 
plural.)

More examples: what is the one thing that shock-absorbers don't do? What 
does a condenser (on a carburettor) condense? What heat-transfer 
mechanism does a car radiator use? (Hint: if it uses radiation, why does 
it need a fan?)

This is now way off-topic. It is fun though.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Enrico Weigelt]

Dale wrote:

> The only good thing, it helps some people remember to replace the
> battery in the smoke detector.  Of course, one could come up with a
> better way of doing that too.  Most of them beep for weeks when it gets
> low, which is ironic since the beeping runs the battery down.  o_O

In our house, that's the job of my grandpa (former fire inspector).
Of course he gets reminded by his speaking watches (yes, plural!) ;-o


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Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Enrico Weigelt]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

> What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers
> working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are
> they going to start considering the environment?

What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still
believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ?


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Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving

[Alex Schuster]

Enrico Weigelt writes:

> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their
> > farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer
> > for. When are they going to start considering the environment?
> 
> What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still
> believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ?

I am stupid enough.

	Wonko

[gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-02-18, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> More examples: what is the one thing that shock-absorbers
> don't do? What does a condenser (on a carburettor) condense?

Never heard of a condenser on a carbuetor.

Google doesn't seem to know about it either.  Are you referring
to the condenser (capacitor) that's located along with the
points in the distributor assembly?

Or is it something that goes by a different name here in the US?

> What heat-transfer mechanism does a car radiator use? (Hint:
> if it uses radiation, why does it need a fan?)

And "convection" ovens use a fan to circulate hot air instead
of the mechanism used by conventional ovens.  What mechanism do
conventional, "non-convection" ovens use?  You guessed it: convection.

-- 
Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>    
>> What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers
>> working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are
>> they going to start considering the environment?
>>      
> What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still
> believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ?
>
>
> cu
>    

I'm not.  It's just like a lot of other things, people trying to make 
money and control other people.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:17:09 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> > What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their
> > farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer
> > for. When are they going to start considering the environment?  
> 
> What frakk'in greenhouse gases ?

The huge amounts of methane they emit, although it turns out we blamed
the wrong end of the cow for that.

> Is anyone stupid enough to still
> believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ?

I don't recall ever claiming that cows were man made :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 18 February 2010 00:41:32 Peter Humphrey wrote:

> What does a condenser (on a carburettor) condense?

s/carburettor/distributor/ of course. Silly slip.

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Peter.

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[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:

> Enrico Weigelt writes:
>
> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their
> > > farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer
> > > for. When are they going to start considering the environment?
> >
> > What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still
> > believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ?
>
> I am stupid enough.
>
>        Wonko
>
> ++me

The only open question seems to be whether we can do much about it.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

[Arttu V.]

On 2/18/10, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> No, you miss the point. The name implies saving daylight, not time. Show
> me anyone who can do that. (And I won't ask why Saving has to be
> plural.)

Riddle me this as well: what good does Daylight Savings do in, e.g.,
Scandinavian region countries, which have fair sized slabs of their
landmasses on the North side of the Arctic Circle?

I mean does somebody actually think that seeing Aurora Borealis in the
dark is a proper ersatz light source over sunlight? It's dark 24 hours
a day on the worst days, with only scanty lighting on the days before
and after those. One can turn the clocks upside down or replace the
hands with a 10 000 rpm fan, and it won't squeeze any more sunlight
into the sky due to basic physics.

> This is now way off-topic. It is fun though.

Nihilistic semantics say we're perfectly on topic for the thread (if
not for the list): running without/after sanity ...

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Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

[Stroller]

On 18 Feb 2010, at 02:17, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their  
>> farmers
>> working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for.  
>> When are
>> they going to start considering the environment?
>
> What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still
> believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ?

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b20b8/im_a_global_warming_skeptic_and_i_invite_you_to/

If the above gets broken, I think this will work, instead:
   http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b20b8/
if not:
   http://tinyurl.com/yesqlwb

Stroller.