On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:56:00 +0000 Lucas van Staden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:38 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:44:16 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have been using DR17 for over a year now, and I use it successfully on
> > > my thinkpad t43 laptop in a corporate environment.
> > >
> > > Works 99%, even with a dual monitor setup. Love the fact that the second
> > > monitor I connect to my laptop acts as an independant desktop.
> > >
> > > The only two issues I have is that since the last cvs build the screen
> > > lock no longer accepts my biometric finger scan, so I have to manually
> > > type my password to unlock, and also that any shelves created can't seem
> > > to exist on the second desktop/monitor.
> >
> > you may want to set up a /etc/pam.d/enlightenment profile that works with
> > your biometric scanner :) basically this is an os setup issue to set up pam
> > profiles. find a template or copy another that works - and presto.
> >
>
> Hi, thanks for the tip, but unfortunately I had tried this, and it still
> does not work.
>
> When trying the biometric scan, in the screen lock, I get the following
> error in my logs:
>
> Jan 16 08:47:54 DeepThought pam_bioapi[9493]: Unable to load BioAPI BSP
> with UUID of {5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350}, BioAPI error #194d.
>
> Research for error #194d had revealed that it is a permissions error to
> the user that is trying to access the biometric profile. I suspect that
> the lock screen part of DR17 is running as another user.
>
> I did try to chmod 777 the biometric profile, to test, but it had no
> effect.
the pam auth is running as your user id - well the e17 part is as e forks off a
child that does the pam auth and returns the result to e. below that in pam
land, how ti does it is out of our hands - it's up to libpam and wh it
does/execs etc.
>
> > > Knowing that a rebuild from CVS could break when I try to do an update
> > > (which is a problem when trying to meet a deadline), I always keep a
> > > spare 4 gig partition to which I first mirror my base install, and then
> > > do the CVS build on that. I can then happily dual boot between my stable
> > > build and the new one, and once I reckon the new one is stable, I move it
> > > to my main partition. Doing this had always allowed me to keep up to date
> > > without the worries of breaking my system.
> > >
> > > Personally I think DR17 is stable enough for daily use.
> > >
> > > Randall Svancara writes:
> > >
> > > > I have been monitoring the DR17 project for several years now with
> > > > anticipation of someday being able to actually use it.
> > > >
> > > > DR17 compiles and works great. I am testing it out right now. I
> > > > realize it is far from complete and very buggy...but it works. Kudos to
> > > > the development team.
> > > >
> > > > I look forward to helping out with testing and debugging in the future.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Randall
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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