April 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

bug fix support by community
by jdd 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

I wonder If we a numerous enough do do so right now, but it could be an idea to go. I beleive that in the near future the Novell Programmers will be very busy working on the new distributions, as they do with 10.1 right now. one of the consequencies is that the debugging of the stable version is short. I know that security debugging is done (and I think well done), but, specially, Yats bugfixes are no more wellcome. However there are still many. many cosmetic (typos, translations), some of them worst (problems in adding inst-sources). In the same time, new SUSE Linux version are more and more hardware demanding. Using 10.0 on a 5 years computer is pretty straight forward, 10.1 is questionable, 10.2 or 3 probably not possible if all goes as it do now (5 years ago, 128Mb ram was current, 256Mb very high end). I understand why this is. But I try to keep all this nice hardware living and I'll hate to revert to debian :-((( I understand also that user using, say, SUSE 9.0 (or 10.0 two years in the future) can afford to update manually the problematics packages (kernel...) for security reason. I know some people use still 7.x versions. But nobody can fix yast alone :() why not us? Yast is a fine piece of code, but a big part is scripts, translations are texts files, openSUSE builder should ease the process. So could the community be more involved in this? As I am, I could take the french translation part and be assigned the translation fix (for example) from bugzilla. what do you think of the idea (the setup is to be discussed after if necessary) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Printing problems
by Art Fore 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

These printing problems are about to drive me up the wall in Suse 10. Don't know if it is Suse 10 or Linux in general. I open a PDF file in Opera which opens KPDF. When I print, it prints A4 eventhough the printer is setup for letter in Yast, CUPS, and KDE print manager and the file itself is a letter size document. If I save the file, and open it in Acrobat, it prints OK, but openening it in KPF still wants to print A4. Why is this? Is there some hidden configuration file somewhere I am not aware of? Art

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Palm sync with Kontact - out of the box on Suse 10?
by Janus 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I never managed to sync my Palm with Kontact. My last attempt was with SuSE 9.1. Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10? I have a Palm Tungsten E. Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

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Networked, duplexing, colour laser printer
by 'o-Dzin Tridral 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear everyone, I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer that I can put onto our small home network, either wired or wireless. If possible I'd prefer something where the toner cartridges aren't extortionatelly priced, but that might be too much to ask. I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet. I'd appreciate hearing peoples' experiences with linux and colour laser printers. Any recommendations? Anything to avoid? Thank you for any advice. 'ö-Dzin

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Video frequency too high for my LCD
by Thomas Astleitner 25 May '06

25 May '06

Dear list; I'm using SuSE Linux 9.3 now since it has been released. When 10.0 final came out, I installed it and realized, that my LCD monitor couldn't handle the video frequency (the message was: "Video frequency too high"). There, i parked 10.0 and waited for 10.1. Now, 10.1 RC1 is out, i've tried that version to install and got the same fault during installation progress (at the point where you can set up the graphic card). SuSE now runs in version 10.1 RC1 in a screen resolution of 800x600 with a hardware manufactor of Hyundai, model L50S. As soon as I try to run a higher resolution, the monitor can't handle it. Physically, I have a LCD monitor manufactured by Hyundai, the model is called L70S, it's a 17" screen. I have already tried to change the frequency parameters in SAX2, without success. The reason why I'm wirting on this mailing list is because i already had the problem on the released version of 10.0 so maybe i'm running into troubles which already are in the released version. I can't imagine that I'm the only one having such kind of problem, so maybe one of you have a simple HowTo for me, I'd be so very glad to hear. Thank you a lot! Thomas

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How to update the database ?
by Erik Jakobsen 23 May '06

23 May '06

You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated. I have forgotten how that is to be done. Can anybody help me ?. TIA -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

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Faxing from 10.0
by Mike McMullin 22 May '06

22 May '06

I've been trying to set up faxing under 10.0. I've added a modem using hylafax's modemadd, specifying ttyS4 as the correct modem device. I did a test run using jhylafax and it connected to my cell phone properly. After a system reboot neither jhylafax not susefax (which errors in java) can find the modem. KDEPrintFax errors with: Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/capisuitefax -d '***1928' '/opt/fax/Mike/fax' can't write to queue dir (Note first three digits of phone are grunged be me for this message.) /opt/fax/Mike has attributes of 777 as does the intended fax file /opt/fax/Mike/fax. Also is there a way once I get this sorted out to just print to teh fax-modem using cups? Mike

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Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1: xgl+compiz+nvidia-8756? all video players crash
by Silviu Marin-Caea 12 May '06

12 May '06

On Apr 28, 2006 06:17 AM, J Sloan <joe(a)tmsusa.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > What is the secret of getting xgl desktop with working video? I saw > the novell > demos so I know it's gotta be possible. > > I have a Dell GX270 with nvidia card, and it ran suse 10 flawlessly. I > did a > clean install of 10.1-RC1 since I wanted to see the xgl stuff in > action. I did > everything as defined in the "Novell cool solutions" article*, and the > rotating cube, transparency, and all the other compiz effects are > running as > advertised. Everything looks great. until I play a video. any video. > Playing a > realmedia file with realplayer, or an mpeg with xine or mplayer, gives > the > same result: the X server dies instantly the millisecond that I > attempt to > play the video. > > Is this a known issue? Surely I'm not the only one here who has tried > to view > a video on an xgl-enabled desktop? I'm replying to opensuse@ as well, please continue the thread there, if necessary. I didn't try with an nvidia card, I have Intel on-board video, but I get the same crash when trying to play video with the xv driver. It's because the Intel driver does not have yet the capabilities required. But the nvidia driver does. Make sure you have these options in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx -accel xv" If -accel xv does not work for you, try -accel xv:pbuffer If still not working, open your media player without any movie and set it to use video driver xshm instead of xv. It will be much slower, but it works for certain. It's the only way to see video on my Intel 915, that does not have fbo or pbuffer capabilities in the driver.

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Changing hardware IRQ's
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 08 May '06

08 May '06

I have a 9.2 system here where the network card(Realtek 8139) and the on-board sound have the same IRQ. I know this because it is mentioned when I boot the machine on the listing of the HDDs cofigured in the BIOS. In addition RTFM indicated that the procinfo command shows the IRQs, relevant details pasted below: irq 0: 1495304 timer irq 9: 690 uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd irq 1: 1881 i8042 irq 10: 14983 eth0, Ensoniq AudioP irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 11: 0 acpi irq 3: 102 irq 12: 37136 i8042 irq 4: 8 irq 14: 13890 ide0 irq 6: 14 irq 15: 18097 ide1 I would like to move the Ensonique on-board sound device to another IRQ but do not know how. What is the 'correct' IRQ for sound devices? I think it was 15 but I would prefer to leave te ide items alone. Would moving eth0 to a different PCI slot help?

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How to assign a keyboard shortcut to each keyboard
by Shriramana Sharma 07 May '06

07 May '06

I use at least four keyboards -- US normal, US international, Indian Devanagari and Indian Tamil. I would like to assign keyboard shortcuts to each of these individually so while typing US normal I can shift to US international without reaching for the mouse. Back in Windows where I use Keyman (http://tavultesoft.com) I have this facility. Please tell me how I can assign individual shortcuts. The KDE Control Center Keyboard Layout dialog has some stuff called Switching Options and Xkb options but they do not seem to contain what I want. Thank you. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-02-10 W06-5 UTC+0530

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