When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the system complaines:
MINI:/home/rland# emacs Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. MINI:/home/rland# emacs Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. MINI:/home/rland# cd ~ MINI:~# xhost Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" ...whereas launching emacs as a ordinary user (rland) works fine. What exactly should I edit to allow su doing the same? The error recommends to use "xhost" - but this seems to be a GUI app and therefore dies for the same reasons as previously launching emacs. How can I help myself, would running xhost fruit in a working GUI when changing to su? Then, I cannot get my Diamond Sonic Impact 90 to work. gtcd starts, accepts the CD, playes the first track but the speakers remain quitely. The linuxdoc howto states no support for this card but the distributer SuSe maintaines a database which plots out: these cards should be supported by Aureal and OSS look at http://linux.aureal.com/ CHIPSET - AU8820 When installing deb2.2 I marked the OSS driver as a module and now I cannot really track the problem.: ****************** /var/log/messages displays: Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hdd: STINGRAY 8422 IDE 8X CD-ROM 7-27-95, ATAPI CDROM drive Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hda: ST32140A, 2015MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hdc: QUANTUM BIGFOOT1280A, 1226MB w/87kB Cache, CHS=2492/16/63 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hdd: ATAPI 2X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card) Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: NCR53c406a: no available ports found Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus support present -> Aborting. Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: aec671x_detect: Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: 3w-xxxx: tw_findcards(): No cards found. Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: scsi : 0 hosts. Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: scsi : detected total. Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Partition check: Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hdc: [PTBL] [623/64/63] hdc1 < hdc5 > Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Adding Swap: 114876k swap-space (priority -1) Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: NTFS version 000607 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/driver s/rtl8139.html Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xec00, IRQ 11, 00:00:21:d9:37:b2. Oct 23 15:13:11 MINI syslogd 1.3-3#33: restart. Oct 23 15:26:12 MINI -- MARK -- Oct 23 15:46:12 MINI -- MARK -- Oct 23 16:06:12 MINI -- MARK -- Oct 23 16:13:44 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 23 16:13:44 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x40 Oct 23 16:13:45 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 23 16:13:45 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x40 Oct 23 16:13:46 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 23 16:13:46 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x40 Oct 23 16:13:47 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Which line could relate to the soundcard? Additionally there is a line Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hdd: ATAPI 2X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache whereas the first line tells me: Oct 23 15:06:13 MINI kernel: hdd: STINGRAY 8422 IDE 8X CD-ROM 7-27-95, ATAPI CDROM drive Should I bother about the 2x speed, how can I bench the speed of a CDrom drive? Then searching in /etc/modules: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored. ide-floppy autofs binfmt_misc nfs nfsd vfat smbfs ntfs sound videodev rtl8139 fbcon-cfb32 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ...which states there should be somewhere a sound module, but cat /etc/modules.conf|grep -A 4 sound returnes no output. Does dselect build up a database for all indexed packages? I cannot find wine by running "dpkg -l wine" or "dpkg -l | grep wine" although the debian installation routine was fed by all 4 CD's. Neither does dpkg seem to support a query routine simular to rpm. Would someone kindly help in these questions? Robert
