Been Googling like mad, and found a few people with reasonably similar 
problems, but unfortunately no luck. It appears to be the serial.o module 
that's to blame. I tried having it loaded at boot, and it loaded, but I still 
can't login as anything but root. So I  compiled it into the kernel, no dice. 
Here's the exact error message...

localhost login: myuser
password: **********
modprobe: Can't locate module ttyS* which is needed for /dev/ttyS*

However, if I login as root and 

$su myuser

it works. That makes me think its a permission issue, but with what? Also, if 
I try to run kdm as myuser it says 'only root wants to run kdm'. Im pretty 
sure my permissions are screwed but I don't know where/what.

However, to throw a screw into that theory, even if I add myuser to the root 
group he still cant login from the main login prompt. Beats me....someone 
help :P

Happy thanksgiving!  

On October 12, 2003 02:22 pm, Nick W wrote:
> I decided pre-built distros were getting boring. Ive got X and KDE running
> with a 2.4.22 kernel. I got my touchpad to work. ACPI being included is
> nice for my laptop.
>
> My only problems are, firstly, I created a daily user account, but when I
> try to login as anything but root I get an error from modprobe saying it
> can't load ttyS*, any idea whats wrong? I have a feeling I have a kernel
> build in my future, but I don't know what I missed.
>
> The other issue is emerge alsa-driver fails, anybody else have that issue?
>
> TKS for any help...

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