On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:30:25AM +1000, Russell said
> Hi,
> when a users dials to isp,  kppp returns 'unable to open modem'
> however,  success when root user can dial isp, with no errors or time outs.
> the users are members of group 'dip'
> the file permissions for pppd are set to suid
> the gid for kppp and pppd are set as 'dip'
> this is a debian box,  with kde 3.1.4  and running kernel 2.4.18 
> compiled for this box.
> this occurs for existing and new users.

Don't you want people to be in the dialout group?

crw-rw----    1 root     dialout    4,  64 Aug 20 18:31 /dev/ttyS0

That's the serial port, and not being able to write to it would give you
errors like "unable to open modem".

> this started to occur after upgrading kde to 3.1.4 from original knoppix 
> install
> (to run gnucash 1.8.7)
> and kde has some problems, ie kde doesn't displaying some fonts, e.g. in 
> kde help konsole and sysV-init editor

You mean these programs display no fonts at all, just boxes or blanks?
Does this affect all KDE programs?  Have you selected a fixed font that
actually exists in the Konsole configurationg thingy?

> , and  and X display on monitor is 
> reduced vertically (vertically challenged?)

Sure you haven't just shrunk the vertical height on your monitor itself?

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