installed nvidia driver, but permission denied while trying tuxracer

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Installed Nvidia->had problem running tuxrace->solved
the problem. Here's how:


Alright, I admit, I wanted the new nvidia driver only
because I wanted to play tuxracer and chromium :)
(BTW, I followed these steps to install the nvidia
driver:
http://www.leonscape.co.uk/linux/how2-nvg4.html )

Okay, if you look at my earlier posts today, you will
see a sequence of events that finally took me to a
successful kernel upgrade and nvidia driver
installation. But now, when I first started tuxracer,
I got:
$> tuxracer
Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production
(http://www.sunspirestudios.com)
(c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry
<jfpatry@sunspirestudios.com>
"Tux Racer" is a trademark of Jasmin F. Patry
Tux Racer comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is
free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions.
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.

NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl
(Permission denied)
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.


here is what I had in /dev:
/dev# ls -l nvidia*
crw-rw----    1 root     video    195,   0 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia0
crw-rw----    1 root     video    195,   1 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia1
crw-rw----    1 root     video    195,   2 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia2
crw-rw----    1 root     video    195,   3 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia3
crw-rw----    1 root     video    195, 255 Dec  6
03:28 nvidiactl


So I made myself a member of video group(thanks to
google groups). But I still got a similar error. So, I
took a deep breadth, and did(thanks to google groups
again):
/dev# chmod o+rw nvidia*

to get:
/dev# ls -l nvidia*
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     video    195,   0 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia0
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     video    195,   1 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia1
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     video    195,   2 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia2
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     video    195,   3 Dec  6
03:28 nvidia3
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     video    195, 255 Dec  6
03:28 nvidiactl


and now tuxracer is working fine. But my questions is,
is this the proper way to do it?

regards,
->HS


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