On Friday 08 March 2002 17:31, you wrote: > I am having THREE very persistant, very annoying problems with my > Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack installation on a Celeron 533 machine... Here > they are. Can ANYONE help me? > > 1. Cannot log into X as root. > I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it! > I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that version; not > sure).
If it's because you can't find a 'root' icon in kdm: just type 'root' as user and then the password. -there's no icon for root anymore. If it's not that try starting X from the console as root and watch the messages. > > 2. IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot write to the CD... There was a CD > reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent > MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool. Add the user to the cdwrite group with userdrake. > 3. ATAPI ZIP drive not recognized. > I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on > the SECOND IDE channel and harddrake reports it as hdd). It used to work > just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it > isn't recognized within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the > connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive. Is the drive mentionned in /etc/fstab? If it's not, mount it manually from the commandline. What messages do you get when you try to mount it from the commandline. Take a look at /var/log/syslog for info. -- Good luck., Harm Bathoorn. "One has authority, until it's called on" Corto Maltese..Sign of the Capricorn;)
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