I'm not sure this is connected but what security level did you choose when you installed mandrake 8.1? I never really searched how it works but mandrake have some scripts that when you login to your computer on X as a regular user, it changes the owner of some devices to your user. so if I run now:
$ls -l /dev/nvidiactl I get: crw------- 1 haim root 195, 255 Sep 29 14:48 /dev/nvidiactl and my '/etc/security/console.perms' have the dri line. try running 'msec 2' (just for the test) to see if that helps, if it does you can run 'msec custom' to set the security level so it will match your needs. Bye -- Haim On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:32:05PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: > After updating to Mandrake 8.1 and NVidia-1.0-1541, I'm having trouble > running accelerated 3D as a regular user. The error is: > > $ bounce > Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are > too resticitive. Please see the TROUBLESHOOTING section of > /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps to corect. > > The steps in the readme say to delete the line beginning with <dri>: > > if your system has the file > /etc/security/console.perms > then you want to edit the file and remove the line that starts with > "<dri>". > > Trouble is, I can't log in after doing this as a regular user. > > Any help? > > -- Stephen > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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