On Sunday 29 Jun 2003 10:47, Adam Mercer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Whenever I try to run some OpenGL apps, such as tuxracer, or some of
> the OpenGL modules in xscreensaver I get the following error
>
>   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.
>
> Now I've looked in the README for nvidia-glx but its a bit unclear to
> to what I have to do to resolve this. Whats the besty way to sort
> this out?
>
As the README says:

"Edit the file /etc/security/console.perms and remove the line that 
starts with "<dri>" (we have also received reports that additional 
references to <dri> in console.perms must be removed, but this has not 
been verified by NVIDIA)."

Peter 
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