Usev permissions and USB scanners

2009-05-05 Thread kohen . d
Hello,In the Brother support page:http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_scn1c.html#u9They recommend changing the mode for USB devices to 666,  which is a security issue.I created a usbdev group and added my user to that group, added a group setting to that line instead of the recomme

Re: Cups update

2009-05-05 Thread walou
Hello, I've filed a bug as you told me : https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372118 What is the delay of correction for this kind of bug ? Regards, Klaas Jan Claeys wrote : > Op donderdag 23-04-2009 om 09:56 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef walou: >> I asked this question here because this is the ma

Re: Usev permissions and USB scanners

2009-05-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 16:16 +0300, kohe...@gmail.com wrote: > In the Brother support page: > http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_scn1c.html#u9 > They recommend changing the mode for USB devices to 666, which is a > security issue. > I created a usbdev group and added my user to t

Re: Usev permissions and USB scanners

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
And if you'd like to fix it, there is a set of hal fdi files which put scanners into the scanner group for ACL control: /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-libsane.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-libsane-extras.fdi Sometimes the fdi files can miss a supported scanner (like my

Applet drivemount improvement

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Bammer
Hi, I've extended the applet drivemount with a simple but useful feature. With the patch it shows activity in the drive icon by switching between different icons. Additionally it shows the current transfer rates and the total read and written bytes in the tooltip. To have the switching icons enabl

Re: Applet drivemount improvement

2009-05-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Martes 05 Mayo 2009 1:06:37 PM Martin Bammer wrote: > Hi, > > I've extended the applet drivemount with a simple but useful feature. > With the patch it shows activity in the drive icon by switching between > different icons. Additionally it shows the current transfer rates and > the total read

Re: Applet drivemount improvement

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Martin Bammer wrote: > Hi, > > I've extended the applet drivemount with a simple but useful feature. > With the patch it shows activity in the drive icon by switching between > different icons. Additionally it shows the current transfer rates and > the total read an

Re: Applet drivemount improvement

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Bammer
I haven't tried other icon size, but I think all sizes should work. The attached icons are just an example, which I use on my machine. Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2009, 13:12 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > On Martes 05 Mayo 2009 1:06:37 PM Martin Bammer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've extended the appl

Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

2009-05-05 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, Whilst participating in the Karmic forums, I remembered a discussion about some distros like Fedora running a low-latency kernel which helped with PulseAudio. Is there going to be discussion during UDS amongst yourselves (devs) about enabling low-latency for Karmic as well? See this maili

Re: Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

2009-05-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Martes 05 Mayo 2009 9:28:20 PM Vishal Rao wrote: > Hello, > > Whilst participating in the Karmic forums, I remembered a discussion about > some distros like Fedora running > a low-latency kernel which helped with PulseAudio. > > Is there going to be discussion during UDS amongst yourselves (de

Re: Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 May 2009, Vishal Rao wrote: > Is there going to be discussion during UDS amongst yourselves (devs) about > enabling low-latency for Karmic as well? Yes. > See this mailing list post by Lennart of PulseAudio/Fedora fame: > https://tango.0p

Re: Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 May 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > A real-time (-rt) kernel is available and has been for at least a few > releases. PREEMPT (which Lennart says would help) was enabled once upon a > time, but I think it was disabled due to high laptop bat