El mié, 02-06-2004 a las 17:37, -0400, Kevin B. McCarty escribió: > No one is answering this email on debian-user; maybe someone here can tell me? > > I just upgraded to the Gnome 2.6 packages in unstable on my iBook laptop. > Upon logging in to Gnome 2.6 the first time, I receive an error dialog > popup message titled "Error" whose text is "Permissions on the file > /dev/pmu are broken". >
I suppose the error comes from gnome-control-center because the ACME integration. > Does anyone know what program pops up this error message (so I can file a > bug against it for not giving a better error message), and what the > permissions on /dev/pmu are supposed to be? Mine are currently rw-------, > owned by root.root I don't think the error message should be changed, it says just what happens, if you want to control the backlight of your computer, you need write access to /dev/pmu that's all. Cheers. BTW if you are using kernel 2.6 + udev, I think that the problem is with udev. Cheers. > > thanks, > > -- > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department > WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University > GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 > > -- Carlos Perelló Marín Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC) Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] || mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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