On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Ed Hurst eddie@soulkiln.org wrote:
I noticed some of these were already mentioned, though not fixed or answered, so far as I can determine.
KDM -- won't allow me to shut down, reboot or much of anything else except login.
I noticed this when installing with KDE4 already there. I didn't try with a preinstalled GNOME or LXDE. I fixed it by doing a minimal install of Debian with no gui, then installing via apt-get.
Kdesu -- refuses to accept my root password. I have to jack around to setup the X auth for root using the commandline.
Does kdesudo work? If you selected to turn off root logins when installing, kdesu may not work.
KWifiManager -- If I launch from the commandline as root, it does find a network, but the wrong one. I can't get it to let me select my in-home wifi connection. It lists it for a scan, but I see no means to make it select it. From my user account, I can't do anything with it at all.
I didn't have a chance to configure a network (my hard disk died soon after I installed Debian), but if Debian has NetworkManager, you might be able to use KNetworkManager. It will at least support WPA(1/2) if you have the wpa_supplicant service started, but KWifi doesn't.
This last one is a show-stopper for me. If I can't connect and configure on the fly wherever I go, the DE is useless. So, what would you need from me to diagnose this?
-- Ed Hurst
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Hope that helps!