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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Kernel Compile : thought it would pay to do a kernel compile instead,
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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...