Installed Nvidia->had problem running tuxrace->solved the problem. Here's how:
Alright, I admit, I wanted the new nvidia driver only because I wanted to play tuxracer and chromium :) (BTW, I followed these steps to install the nvidia driver: http://www.leonscape.co.uk/linux/how2-nvg4.html ) Okay, if you look at my earlier posts today, you will see a sequence of events that finally took me to a successful kernel upgrade and nvidia driver installation. But now, when I first started tuxracer, I got: $> tuxracer Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production (http://www.sunspirestudios.com) (c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Tux Racer" is a trademark of Jasmin F. Patry Tux Racer comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details. NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied) Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are too resticitive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps to correct. here is what I had in /dev: /dev# ls -l nvidia* crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 0 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 1 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia1 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 2 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia2 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 3 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia3 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 255 Dec 6 03:28 nvidiactl So I made myself a member of video group(thanks to google groups). But I still got a similar error. So, I took a deep breadth, and did(thanks to google groups again): /dev# chmod o+rw nvidia* to get: /dev# ls -l nvidia* crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 0 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 1 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 2 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 3 Dec 6 03:28 nvidia3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 255 Dec 6 03:28 nvidiactl and now tuxracer is working fine. But my questions is, is this the proper way to do it? regards, ->HS -- (Please remove all underscores from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is to reduce spam.) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
