On 10 Sep, Earl Brannigan wrote:
I also have to be root to get this to work. I have changed the permissions on /dev/modem to allow users rw access but I don't trust this setting.... any ideas on how to enable wvdial/ppp for all users.
Yes: add users to the dialout group and stop screwing the permissions about... that said, occasionally you do need to change the group of the modem device. pppconfig/pon/poff are usually quite good, by the way.
4) Adding menu items to gnome doesn't work. Programs are shown in the menu editor but don't appear in the menus themselves. Most (but not all) gnome/x apps I install from apt-get do not show up in the menus (hence the menu-editor).
update-menus should be run by the apps as they install themselves, but often don't. That is a low-priority bug report matter, I think.
5) How do I change my default window-manager (red hat had a useful thing called switchdesk so I never learned where this was defined.. maybe .xsession/ or something.
.xsession or update-alternatives for x-window-manager and x-session-manager
6) Sound : I have a Creative Soundblaster 128 which I can't seem to get working, again red-hat always made my life easy here with sndconfig. In the
man update-modules should explain some things. I will try to document the alsa module compile method next time I do it.
7) Kernel Compile : thought it would pay to do a kernel compile instead, [...] I have had no luck finding anything called as86!
binutils or bin86, maybe. You are using kernel-package's make-kpkg, yes? I'm sure you are, as it's in the manuals...