I spoke too soon about having Nvidia drivers working I think I screwed something up yesterday.
After Tux Racer locked up, I re-read the docs for the Nvidia drivers and went and modified the PAM security module (as suggested if OpenGL apps exit with an error): I disabled the security feature by editing the /etc/security/console.perms file. I removed the line that starts with "<dri>" amd tjem reset the permissions on the NVidia device files by doing: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* Then rebooted... Well, then I couldn't log in as a regular user.. only as root. So after 5 failed attempts to log in as a user.. the login locked me out and displayed an error message about "line 79" in the /etc/security/console.perms file. That line 79 was trying to do something with the nvidia device files (which now were owned by root). I logged in as root, and UNDID the changed to the console.perms file. Only I couldn't remember what were the original permissions for the nvidia device files were, so I left them as owned by "root". AFter this I was able to log in as a USER, but when I tried to Shutdown my system.. it locked during shutdown process.... Well, I just gave up then and did a re-install of Mandrake 8.1 (or rather an upgrade) - to revert all my settings (and hopefully all system files) back to square one. So, now I'm at square one... no nvidia drivers installed.... I'll try to install the drivers again. I figured something went wrong by me using the rpm drivers at first, then trying the tar files, then modifying that console.perm file.. so I'll stick with ONE set of driver files this time. if I use the tar files I'll try the patches that Onur sent me At 12:56 PM 11/25/01 +0200, Onur wrote: > > Here is a patch for the nvidia drivers, meant to be used with the > tar.gz ones. May you verify if it it fixes your problem ? > > Just put them in the nvidia kernel driver source diretory and execute > ss. > > Btw, make sure you dont have "Load dri" and "Load GLcore" in your > XF86Config(-4). GLcore is loaded by nvidia drivers when necessary > only! > > Onur Kucuk >Attachment Converted: "C:\EUDORA\Attach\00-slab-1541.gz" > >Attachment Converted: "C:\EUDORA\Attach\10-devfs-1541.gz" > >Attachment Converted: "C:\EUDORA\Attach\ss" >
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