>-----Original Message----- >From: Ricky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:37 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] nVidia problem with permissions .. > > >Hello all, (& thx..learned alot listening in) >but I need some guidance here.. >Fyi I'm a 9 week old noob' but windoze user, back from dos >5/6+. I'm dual booting [mandrake 9.1, kernel 2.4.19-13, kde 3.1.4] >w/win98 fer games now .. I have a creative labs Geforce Pro >videocard. the glx driver rpm's from mandrake are installed >but I couldnt get >'glxgears' test to work (after I broke my system for the 12+ >time), this time i got this error trying to run quake2 thru winex3.1 >from konsole "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 >readme says the PAM system may be changing permissions on >nvidia /dev files. So this usually works but "it can get confused". It >recommends changing /etc/security/console.perms and remove <dri> >references. I did this and it works, glxgears and quake2. BUT >I miss line 80 with another <dri> reference and forget to >chmod fileperms & owner to root.yes I got xcited. So now it >wont finish booting, It says hde1 is not right and wants to do >fschk but fails, choice is to reboot or ctrl-d for root >password. So I go to root console >and try to repair the lines in console.perms thru emacs, now >the file system is read-only, although emacs will make a backup >(console.perms~) ?? > >So before I reinstall from iso backups (norton ghost) pheew .. >how should I procede ? should the mandrake rpm's be fine if I >install nvidia driver from nvidia*.pkg2.run from the site ? or >do they need to be uninstalled ? inorder to not repeat this >again, any ideas? I'd like to fix it first, ghost it as the >last resort, then install nvidia driver. > >Thx in advance, >btw I ghosted /home before I wrote to newbie.. so I think the >FS should be ok. I think .. (sidebar?-what is pam?) > > ok. I think .. (sidebar?-what is pam?) >
Ricky, I had (have) a very similar problem with my GeForce FX 5600... I started getting that same error you do about permissions being to restrictive. I also attempted removing the <dri> references (but forgot one) and found my self booting to what you have now. Now if only I can remember how I fixed it... I do know I made a backup of the console.perms but I believe to overwrite the exsisting one, I had to go in single mode. If are using LILO, try booting into single mode THEN try modifying the console.perms file. I believe you hit ESC at the graphic LILO screen and type 'linux single' to accomplish this (others can comment if this isn't right). While I was able to bring it back just fine, I tried it again but made sure to remove all <dri> references... I wasn't impressed with the results so I put it back. To this day if I get that error I must enter a root console and chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* to get to work. Please, if any knows of better solution, let us know!! Thanks, Tango __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
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