ThorsHammer
11-02-02, 07:33 PM
I got my Nvidia drivers installed in Mandrake 9.0.
They worked for one night. I booted up today and noticed that the fonts wernt as crisp and the UT2003 would not open. It did last night.
Hers the error message I got . Exactly the same as in the Nvdia readme.
Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions
are too restrictive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps
to correct
So I followed these instructions to the letter.
/etc/security/console.perms
then you should edit the file 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). If instead your system has the file
/etc/logindevperms
then you should edit the file and remove the line that lists
/dev/nvidiactl. The above steps will prevent the PAM security system
from modifying the permissions on the NVIDIA device files. Next,
you will need to reset the permissions on the device files back
to their original permissions and owner. You can do that with the
following commands:
chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia*
When I typed in the last command " chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* " without the quotes I got 2 lines of erro message.
I didnt copy and paste it but it was somethig about not finding chown no such device or directory and could not find /dev/nvidia.
Now it was working for one night and I even had the Nvidia splash screeen.
Whe I tried to logout then back in agian I got messages about how there was already a sesion of dev 1 runing and could not log back in. Also a mesage about one of my partition having file system errors.
Does anybody understand this. I looked inthe read me and didnt read anything about it.
They worked for one night. I booted up today and noticed that the fonts wernt as crisp and the UT2003 would not open. It did last night.
Hers the error message I got . Exactly the same as in the Nvdia readme.
Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions
are too restrictive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps
to correct
So I followed these instructions to the letter.
/etc/security/console.perms
then you should edit the file 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). If instead your system has the file
/etc/logindevperms
then you should edit the file and remove the line that lists
/dev/nvidiactl. The above steps will prevent the PAM security system
from modifying the permissions on the NVIDIA device files. Next,
you will need to reset the permissions on the device files back
to their original permissions and owner. You can do that with the
following commands:
chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia*
When I typed in the last command " chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* " without the quotes I got 2 lines of erro message.
I didnt copy and paste it but it was somethig about not finding chown no such device or directory and could not find /dev/nvidia.
Now it was working for one night and I even had the Nvidia splash screeen.
Whe I tried to logout then back in agian I got messages about how there was already a sesion of dev 1 runing and could not log back in. Also a mesage about one of my partition having file system errors.
Does anybody understand this. I looked inthe read me and didnt read anything about it.