On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> now i have a damn wired good news. all the problems i talked about are
> gone. :) i can access my usb disk, i can see the battery info.
Congratulations :)
This reminds me to attempt to solve why my laptop has no battery info.
I think I need to cr
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:28:26 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
>> i think this is just a group and permission issue.
>
> Logging out of and back into X should be enough for any group changes to
> take effect. I wonder if it could have been a module load
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:28:26 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> yesterday, after i have joined those groups, i did not restart my
> system. i just exit X, and log off, then log on, and i did not able to
> access those resources. but today, after a cold start up, all the
> problems are fixed without touching
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> I am rather curious what application you are using to get battery
> information that requires it being root.
>
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state is 0444 on my netbook/laptop since
> forever. I just use a bash function to parse it and display it o
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:21:06AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> i kanda thought about that for the usb stuff. but i have not resolve
> it. may be i also need the pmout package to allow me to mount the usb
> disk?
>
> the big problem now is the battery information. i really have no idea
> where to look
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> Depending on your specific USB device you may need to edit UDEV rules
> to set proper permissions on the device node. For example I had to do
> that for normal users to read my digital camera.
>
>
i kanda thought about that for the usb stuff
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not
> good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that
> i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery
> informatiion, etc.
>
> i am already
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Mick wrote:
> Yes, that's how it *should* work, but it evidently isn't. Maybe
> someone else more experienced in KDE can explain what happened and why
> the particular functions are now not available to plain users, or if
> you have another machine which has been r
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote:
>
> You only have yourself to blame I'm afraid ...
>
> When you login to xorg using a root account some configuration files
> become owned by root. A normal user can no longer access them. Most
> desktops should be clever enough to allow users to creat
On 9 March 2010 12:31, Xi Shen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote:
>> When you login to xorg using a root account some configuration files
>> become owned by root. A normal user can no longer access them. Most
>> desktops should be clever enough to allow users to create their
On 9 March 2010 11:14, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not
> good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that
> i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery
> informatiion, etc.
>
> i am already in these
hi,
i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not
good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that
i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery
informatiion, etc.
i am already in these groups: disk,wheel,audio,video,usb,haldaemon,plugdev.
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