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http://forums.opensuse.org – Hi, I updated to opensuse 11.2 from 11.1 (more a complete reinstall). I am happy with version 11.2 but there are some minor things, which do not work at all. One of them is the acpid. I have a Lenovo T400 and created some additional keycommands in /usr/lib/acpid/thinkpad_handler. These working fine with version 11.1. Now I have the problem, that they seam only to work for the root. As normal user these keys are not available. If I open a terminal as normal user and type: su /etc/init.d/acpid restart it works. as soon as I type exit or close the terminal, the keys do not work anymore. What is the problem or what changed since version 11.1 that I have such problems. Thank Martin (Distributions)

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