Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-13 Thread Robert Ames
>From linuxgames.com: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/ashridah/girldrake.html Supposedly there was breakage in PAM which is changing permissions on the /dev/nvidia devices for no good reason. --Robert (not subscribed to the list, but thought I might try to help out). __

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > nvidia.com and I saw mention of those devices, so that was going to be > my next suggestion... looks like you beat me to it :) > I didn't, somebody else ( named Matti Airas, who wrote me in private ) suggested this. I could have gues

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-04 19:10): > I seem to have recieved a solution. There are /dev/nvidia* devices which are > only > accessible by root. The permissions on libraries are fine. Didn't try it out > yet. I had a quick browse through the support docs on lokigames.com

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:45:56PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > On my machine, where you get the signal 11, mine initialises the GL > renderer, so it may be a problem with the GL libraries, or permissions > on them. Here are the permissions on mine: > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so > lrwxrwxrwx1

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-03 23:40): > > If Quake 3 runs fine as root though, it does suggest a permissions > > problem. What error do you get when you try run it as a user? > > > Q3 1.29f linux-i386 Jun 19 2001 > - FS_Startup - > Current search path: > /home/blah/.

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-03 Thread Steven Smolinski
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:36:19PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:23:40PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: How are you gentlemen! > > If Quake 3 runs fine as root though, it does suggest a permissions > > problem. What error do you get when you try run it as a user? > >

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:23:40PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > If Quake 3 runs fine as root though, it does suggest a permissions > problem. What error do you get when you try run it as a user? > Q3 1.29f linux-i386 Jun 19 2001 - FS_Startup - Current search path: /home/blah/.q3a/baseq3

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-03 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-03 21:20): > I have recently switched from Slackware to Debian ( couldn't wait > for the Slack 8.0 any longer :) I have a question. I have an Nvidia > RIVA TNT M64 card. I have downloaded and compiled nvidia-glx and > nvidia-kernel. I understand that

Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-03 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
I have recently switched from Slackware to Debian ( couldn't wait for the Slack 8.0 any longer :) I have a question. I have an Nvidia RIVA TNT M64 card. I have downloaded and compiled nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. I understand that some GL based programs ( cthuga being one example ) use Mesa spe