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Re: nvidia follow-up and new question



heya,

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:49:21PM -0800, John F. wrote:
> Okay, I got the driver to work through some secret methods (downloading 
> a tar file and compiling), but now I need to know how to change the PAM 
> settings, because when I try to run something like "tuxracer", I get the 
> following:

you did it the nvidia way as opposed to the Debian Way, you mean?  did
the directions i posted not work?  that's too bad...  anyway, your
solution is to add yourself to the video group.  you can do this with
the vigr program (if you know how to use vi), or perhaps some invocation
of the adduser command, or maybe just editing the /etc/group file, adding
your username after the colon for the video group.  

if you really don't care, you can just chmod 666 /dev/nvidia* (evil...)
and never have this problem, but the best way is to add yourself to
the video group (and add yourself to the audio and cdrom groups while
you're at it), and then log out and log back in to your x session.


regards
	sean


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