April 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Which SUSE RPM contains mp2enc?
by M. Fioretti 07 May '06

07 May '06

Greetings, I'm editing some videos with Kino on suse 10.1 beta. When I try to export to dvd I get an error because (as I read in the shell where I launched Kino): sh: mp2enc not found. Now, if I enter mp2enc in www.rpmfind.net I get a lots of hits showing that mp2enc is part (on Mandriva) of mjpegtools. Since I have that rpm on the SUSE CDs I thought I'd install it. I had no problems to do so, but mp2enc isn't part of that package. Why isn't it there? What is the suse rpm containing mp2enc? TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ ...when most FOSS advocates talk about "freedom" with respect to copyright, patents, content, formats, speech, the press, assembly, etc., etc., they are talking about the freedoms of a privileged elite. comment to "FOSS Community, disabled users must learn to communicate".

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Warning to Americans!
by Paul W. Abrahams 07 May '06

07 May '06

The default installation of SuSE printers uses A4 paper, which will cause your printer to hang up. It happened to me and it took a while to figure out what was going on. CUPS also has to be told (separately, I think) what the paper size is. For Americans, it should be letter size. The setting is in the filter parameters of the printer. Since I ask lots of questions, perhaps I can do a good turn for others here. Paul

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Packman packages for 10.1 RC2 PowerPC
by Peter Czanik 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hello, I did a first round of mass recompiling of Packman packages for PowerPC. As I needed to modify sources heavily in a number of cases, these files are not (yet) integrated with the rest of the Packman website. All packages were built on SUSE Linux 10.1 factory as of the RC2 state. Y2pmbuild was used for building packages, so all my mistakes are reproducible :-) I have yet to implement secure installation sources ( http://en.opensuse.org/Secure_Installation_Sources ), so at the moment, you need to download packages you want to install and use plain old rpm. Ooops, I almost forgot it, the files are available at ftp://spike.fa.gau.hu/pub/pmppc101rc2/ Please let me know, if you have any problems with these packages! Bug me first, and not the original packager, as the problem might be PPC specific, and due to the fact, that I use y2pmbuild for everything instead of PackMan specific build scripts... Bye, CzP

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Firefox and CUPS: a bad interaction
by Paul W. Abrahams 03 May '06

03 May '06

I'm running SuSE 10.0 and Firefox 1.5.0.2. If I attempt to print the displayed window using File / Print (and CUPS), the window prints correctly - but the window showing the progress hangs up (and hangs Firefox with it). Killing the window doesn't kill the process. I've looked for something about this problem on Google, in vain. I don't know if the remedy lies with Firefox, with CUPS, or with some combination of the two. Outside of Firefox, printing works as it should. Any ideas, anyone? Paul

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Not a Jpeg Starts with 0x3c 0x21
by Carl William Spitzer IV 03 May '06

03 May '06

How do I convert these into standard displayable jpeg files? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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openSUSE @ Google Summer of Code 2006
by Christoph Thiel 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi everyone, openSUSE has just been accepted at Google Summer of Code 2006! Quoting http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What is Summer of Code 2006? Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place last summer, brought together 400 students and 40 mentoring organizations from 49 countries. We'd like to include even more organizations and participants this year. The program's goals are to inspire young developers and provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer, and to support existing open source projects and organizations. Since we're looking to find developers around the world (many of whom may have considered creating open source software but havent yet taken the plunge), we felt that concentrating on the student population was a good place to focus our efforts. Further, since no single organization could possibly mentor hundreds of students working on disparate projects, we thought it made sense to spread the work throughout the open source and free software community. We also think that the Apache Software Foundation (for instance) knows a lot more about what an Apache project needs than Google does and is more likely to ensure that an applicant gets the right kind of guidance so they can create acceptable code. 2. When can I apply for Summer of Code 2006? You can apply starting on May 1, 2006. [...] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are now looking for ideas, proposals, projects, etc. around openSUSE and SUSE Linux, that could be worked on in Google Summer of Code. As the period of application for SoC is already very short, we need to get our proposals for project online May 1st, 2006, at the latest. So, for example, if you are missing a certain YaST module, or a special feature in the distribution, speak up now! Our proposals will be publish on http://en.opensuse.org/SoC2006 shortly. Regards Christoph

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Mozilla Mail mail filter file?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 02 May '06

02 May '06

Running 9.2 I have used the GUI message filters substantially and currently have over 100 filters. Some of these filters uncheck themselves and so they are not run the next time a message that matches the filter criteria is received. I am assuming that the details I have entered via the GUI are stored in a text file and I would like to start editing that file directly. I have done some searching through ~/ I have not been able to locate a file that holds the filter information, even in ~/.mozilla. Is my assumption right that I can edit the filters in a text file and if so where/what is this this file called?

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Soc@2006: User Restrictions (not Child Protection).
by Peter Flodin 02 May '06

02 May '06

I have a proposal that we don't call this feature Child Protection, or Parental Control or anything similar. In addition to filtering (I would only use whitelisting) what I would like to see is an easy way to configure restrictions for users. I will give a personal example. I have a several computers, one of which is in a central location visible from our kitchen and eating area, and is often used by my 4 year old daughter. I'm quite proud of the fact that she can logon (with username and password) and run Gcompris and Tux Paint, all by herself, (she can't read or write). She is allowed to use this computer whenever she wants, just like she allowed to get pens and paper out and do drawings. Now this computer has connection to the internet, and at the moment I am just relying on her lack of knowledge to get on the internet. In a Microsoft Windows domain there is something called Global Policy, which means on a per user and per machine, I could lock down all sort of settings. eg I could hide control panels, Internet Explorer, ability to get to a command line, various system rights etc by just checking boxes. And it would apply to my selection of users and/or computers in the network. I am well aware that many of these restriction can be setup in Linux, but there is no central tool (that I am aware of) that I can use to do this. eg define these group of settings, restrictions, application settings and apply them to these Users. Peter "Pflodo" Flodin

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