Hi, I've installed 7.1 with XFree4 and KDE2 on two machines. On both the screensaver password has been enabled. On both, when logging on through KDM the password is often rejected (it seems one can type too fast). The screensaver, however, rejects any attempt to enter a password failing every time. Then one has to restart X, losing work etc. On one machine, kmail behaves as expected until one sends a mail. Then it simply does nothing, neither sending it, nor closing the box, nor adding it to the queue - nothing. The message has to be aborted. It receives mail OK and is set to use smtp to the correct server on the correct port. Nothing changed on the server and it worked before! Third, where's the nice little kbiff gone - I like the little letterbox icon by the clock and miss its little tune when e-mail arrives (I could hear it all over the library!). xbiff and Korn don't have that option - or is there a command line operation to play the tune without opening a new window? Any ideas? -- Best wishes, Derek Harding, (BA MIAP) ICT & Network Manager hardingd@warlingham.surrey.sch.uk
Derek Harding wrote:
On both the screensaver password has been enabled. On both, when logging on through KDM the password is often rejected (it seems one can type too fast). The screensaver, however, rejects any attempt to enter a password failing every time. Then one has to restart X, losing work etc.
Not entirely sure, but sounds like an issue with PAM. Basically, you need to make sure that PAM is set up to authenticate. There are several READMEs around, although I don't know if these are only in the KDE source code package. Unfortunately KDM doesn't work at all for me -- when I start it, the keyboard locks up, and the only thing that works is the magic SysRq (gdm works fine though). Can't help with the other two, I'm afraid. Cheers, -- Chris Howells E-Mail: chris.h@gmx.co.uk ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net
Chris Howells wrote:
Unfortunately KDM doesn't work at all for me -- when I start it, the keyboard locks up, and the only thing that works is the magic SysRq (gdm works fine though).
Hmm, it seems that it didn't like my old XDM config files, so 'rm -rf /etc/X11/xdm', and copying over some skeleton files has fixed it. -- Chris Howells E-Mail: chris.h@gmx.co.uk ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net
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