I've got a bunch of problems with my BLFS system with KDE-3.5.5 (Ken, I acted on your suggestions and compiled KDE-3.5.5 using the instructions in BLFS Book which worked just perfect ! :-) )
Soon after booting into runlevel 5 (KDE) I noticed that, the kbd shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+Fn to switch between the vt's don't work ! Back in the red hat days I knew how to do this, now I just don't remember !! :-( I chose keyboard layout in KControl and that solved the problem of Ctrl+Alt+Fn. Unfortunately, this seems to work as long as I'm logged into KDE. These shortcuts don't work from the login screen ! Infact, I've probs while on KDM login screen. Typing hyphen produces a strange char while in the login screen ! I want to have the facility to switch to the VT irrespective of whether I'm logged into KDE or not. At the moment it doesn't seem to be possible. Now, how I do I go about this. FYI, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't work either (even in KDE) ! I've tried to look into SuSE (occasionallt I keep booting into SuSE to see how SuSE achieves things which, helps me to troubleshoot whenever I've probs in BLFS) and found that SuSE uses different approach. SuSE seems to be using keymap files stored under /usr/share/kbd. I don't find this folder in BLFS. Maybe, it has to do with the difference between XORG-7 and XORG-6.9. I've XORG-7 installed in BLFS. Secondly, I can't sudo ! Sudo asks for root users password and typing the right password doesn't let me in. Displays a message 'Sorry, try again' ! After three tries it just goes away with a message '3 incorrect password attempts' ! I've installed Kerberos5, heimdal, Linux-PAM with Cracklib support (Uh ! Overkill !). This is what I find in my /etc/pam.d/sudo file: ---------------------------------------------------- auth required pam_unix.so auth sufficient pam_rootok.so account required pam_unix.so session optional pam_mail.so dir=/var/mail standard session required pam_unix.so session required pam_env.so ----------------------------------------------------- Not sure, if these are the right settings ! Finally, I've problems with kpowersave. I've acpid and powersave (the latest version) installed to support kpowersave. acpid config files are empty to make it forward the events to powersave. Powersaved seems to be running fine. When I boot into KDE, kpowersave displays a messagebox saying 'You are not permitted to connect to the powersave daemon via DBUS. Please check your DBUS configuration and installtion' !! I don't get any powersave/scheme option in kpowersave menu save the help menu !! I've compared the settings in SuSE and BLFS including the file permissions and found them to be the same. kpowersave works in SuSE while it displays the before mentioned error message. I guess, it has to with the DBUS policy. These are the messages from powersaved I found in the logs: ----------------------------------------------------------------- daemon.log:Nov 14 02:30:38 kevkim powersaved[15074]: WARNING (filter_function:208) Hal service stopped. Battery information no longer available daemon.log:Nov 14 02:30:39 kevkim powersaved[15074]: ERROR (filter_function:97) DBus daemon disconnected. Trying to reconnect... daemon.log:Nov 14 02:30:48 kevkim powersaved[15074]: ERROR (hwEvent_callback:113) hw event socket broke away trying to reconnect... daemon.log:Nov 14 15:05:44 kevkim powersaved[5402]: WARNING (filter_function:208) Hal service stopped. Battery information no longer available daemon.log:Nov 14 15:05:53 kevkim powersaved[5402]: ERROR (hwEvent_callback:113) hw event socket broke away trying to reconnect... daemon.log:Nov 14 15:05:57 kevkim powersaved[5402]: ERROR (filter_function:97) DBus daemon disconnected. Trying to reconnect... --------------------------------------------------------------- Seem like a problem with DBUS. I'm thinking of recompiling DBUS, not sure if it would help. I've compared files under /etc/dbus/, /etc/acpid and /etc/powersave and also the files in /etc/sysconfig and found them to be same as those in SuSE. Diff returned nothing ! Yet, I don't understand why it works in SuSE and not in BLFS. I would really appreciate any help in this regard. Please let me know if further info is needed and I'd be glad to provide that info. Thanks. Kevin
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