[gentoo-user] Troubles with kde4

[econti]

Hi all,
finally I decided to upgrade from kde3 to kde4. All went well, but:

1 - I am not able to fix the frequency of the display, neither using
nvidia-settings nor throught System-settings->Dislplay. Every time a
session starts I have to set it again (and this both as root and as user);

As user only and at the start of every session:

2 - I have to resize the dimension of the Panel;
3 - I have to enable the Compositing (desktop effects)

further

4 - I cannot mount a partition (both from command line and from desktop)
the answer is "Only root can mount a
device" (all permissions are the same as before)
5 - I am not able to become root (both in konsole and term) the answer
is "Authentication failed" (consolekit is
merged)

Thank you in advance.

emilio

[Marcus Wanner]

On 11/20/2009 8:52 AM, econti wrote:
> Hi all,
> finally I decided to upgrade from kde3 to kde4. All went well, but:
>
> 1 - I am not able to fix the frequency of the display, neither using
> nvidia-settings nor throught System-settings->Dislplay. Every time a
> session starts I have to set it again (and this both as root and as
> user);
>
> As user only and at the start of every session:
>
> 2 - I have to resize the dimension of the Panel;
> 3 - I have to enable the Compositing (desktop effects)

Sounds like config files are not being written correctly. I would look
at all of the ".*" folders in your home directory and see if they are
all writable by you. This was likely caused by you trying out startx
while in a root non-login terminal, which used "su" to get into. I did
this once with firefox, and it caused it to fail silently when I tried
to start it.

>
> further
>
> 4 - I cannot mount a partition (both from command line and from
> desktop) the answer is "Only root can mount a device" (all
> permissions are the same as before)

I would check out "groups <username>" and see whether you are a member
of the plugdev group.

> 5 - I am not able to become root (both in konsole and term) the answer
> is "Authentication failed" (consolekit is merged)

Wheel group for this one.

Marcus

[econti]

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>
>>
>> further
>>
>> 4 - I cannot mount a partition (both from command line and from
>> desktop) the answer is "Only root can mount a device" (all
>> permissions are the same as before)
> I would check out "groups <username>" and see whether you are a member
> of the plugdev group.
>> 5 - I am not able to become root (both in konsole and term) the
>> answer is "Authentication failed" (consolekit is merged)
> Wheel group for this one.
>
> Marcus
>
>

This was the first thing I did. Remeber, we are talking about a kde
upgrade, so groups, permissions, etc should not be changed.

emilio

[Marcus Wanner]

I know, I just thought that maybe for some weird reason it had changed
your groups settings.

I personally don't use kde since I'm on an old 2Ghz Pentium 4 with 256Mb
of RAM...
LXDE ftw!

Marcus