Gentoo Almost configured...Slight problems...
James Colannino
email2jamez at covad.net
Sun May 25 03:45:22 CDT 2003
Well, with the mirrors problem sorted out (gentoo.oregonstate.edu has
some serious issues to work out with corrupted packages,) I have a
pretty complete system. I have a few minor/moderate issues that demand
immediate attention though before I switch over to using that as my
primary desktop OS:
1) su does not work. I try using su, and even with the root password
correct, it says:
su: Permission Denied
Sorry.
Then it returns me to the regular user shell prompt. It is getting very
annoying logging in and out normally, especially when I'm in X (KDE's
wrapper for su consequently fails as well when trying to do root only
activities such as changing the system clock.)
2) When I use Links 2 in graphical mode on the console using svgalib, as
a normal user, I get the following error message:
svgalib: No I/O Permissions
As root, this works fine.
But, even when in graphical mode, the mouse does not work properly. it
doesn't move at all, except for a few weird movements every now and then
when I flail the mouse around. gpm was running in the background, but I
didn't know because it never started moving on the console, which makes
me thing there is a problem with the device. Do I need to make a
symlink to /dev/psaux such as /dev/mouse?
3) I don't know how to specify a default window manager for X. I don't
want X starting up automatically at boot up as I use the command line
for the majority of my tasks. For now, I've been using:
startx /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde
That has sufficed for now, but I would like to simply have to type
startx. A quick fix could be to place the following in .bashrc:
alias startx='startx /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde'
But, I would like to fix this the "proper" way by specifying a default
Window Manager.
I love Gentoo very much, and have had some good luck with it lately
(Finally! =P) But, I can't get to the source of these problems. Since
there are more than a few Gentoo veterans I've seen posting to the list
lately, I thought I'd throw this stuff out here to see if anyone has
some ideas :) Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance :)
James
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