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wolfi wrote:
I am running the 174 build of the current 2.4.18 kernel from the mantel directory. I tried both the 183 build and the currently available 234 build - these both show the same problems:
- I get SCSI emulation for my DVD drive (which is totally useless and messes up my symlinks /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom)
This happened to me with Hubert's kernel (so I changed the symlinks). That kernel apparently ignored the boot parameter hdd=ide-scsi. 234 version, though, worked like normal. I had to add the boot parameter again, made sure ide-scsi was in my INITRD_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, and changed back the symlinks. BTW, any ATAPI drive would/could work with the ide-scsi module, as it is a psuedo-scsi drive.
- I get a lot of permissions turned to something like 'paranoid' E.g. I can no longer enter several /dev subdirectories as user.
That never happened with me. Did your security setting get changed (and implemented by a SuSEconfig run)?
- Bash by clicking on the shell in the KDE panel no longer works as user, only as root;
No problems here with that as well.
- Starting YaST2 as user asks me for the password, when I'm finished entering it, it says: "The program 'su' is not found! Make sure your PATH is set correctly." Then it quits. I mean, su is in /bin and /bin is in $HOME/.profile in the PATH section, so that's crap:-)
Again, no problem with that as well. Those kind of problems don't seem like a kernel upgrade problem as much as SuSEconfig changing something (like security set to paranoid). -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace God, I am what I am.