Re: testing kudzu

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Chuck Anderson (cra WPI EDU) said: 
> > >>input of) the root password when kudzu attempts to run 
> > >>system-config-display (which had no reason to be run, but I guess that's 
> > >>another story).
> > >
> > >Lovely. /etc/sysconfig/hwconf would be a start. You wouldn't
> > >happen to be using the nVidia driver, would you?
> > 
> > No, the fglrx driver from livna. I'll do some testing in the next few 
> > days so I can accurately describe when this occurs, then file the report 
> > and follow up here with a bug #.
> 
> I had the exact same problem using just the OSS radeon driver.  I
> swapped the video card from a cheap PCI radeon to a AGP radeon 9500.

Well, if you swap the video card, s-c-display will run. But it's
being run as root, so I don't see why it would ask for the root
password. Perhaps usermode/pam_console is confused.

Bill