On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 8:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anne Wilson said: > > > > I found that I could run satisfactorily as root, but not as > > > > user. I > > > > changed permissions as directed, but to no avail. (Also msec > > > > kept changing the permisisons back.) The end result was that > > > > the people > > > > who had tried to help me came to the conclusion that devfs > > > > was the problem. > > > > > > > > I'm signing off in a few hours, for a holiday. If you have > > > > any success would you mail me privately, so that I can search > > > > the archives if necessary? Thanks > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > You got it. I´ve just changed my video settings and I´m going > > > to try to test it out this afternoon. I always disable devfs > > > because it´s always had problems with my hardware (zips, > > > compact flash, pda, you name it...). > > > > > > Anyway, I´ll let you know. > > > > > > -- > > > Michael Holt > > > Snohomish, WA (o_ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ > > > www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrake.com > > > ============================================================< > > > > I also turn devfs(d) off and thats not the problem here. I'm > > still showing the same problems that Anne has - I can run > > Gnomemeeting perfectly as root, but not as user. :-( > > have you ever tried to see what error messages you get starting it > from the cli?
I have, Ed, but I can't remember. I'll come back to this when I get back from holiday. Thanks for the thought Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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