Re: Nvidia-OpenGl "Library not found" problem, but not as root...
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:47:32AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> Sorry for the late send, I made a mistake and sent it to David directly.
> Which was denied.
>
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 15:30 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 April 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > > > > as a normal user, I can't start googleearth (all version, incl. the
> > > > > newest). but, if I make: xhost +; then start googleearth as root, it
> > > > > work correct.
> > > >
> > > > Is your regular user in the 'video' group? In order to use OpenGL
> > > > applications with the nVidia driver, I believe you need to be in this
> > > > group to have access to the necessary devices.
> > >
> > > yes, I'm in the video group, also audio etc..., but a good idea!
> >
> > I also cannot run googleearth except as root. Have not seen a library not
> > found item but a permission denied message. Something to do with how their
> > installation sets up the symlinks, I believe. Anyone fixed this?
>
> apt-cache policy googleearth-package
>
> it is in Etch, Lenny and Sid, in the contrib section.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=googleearth-package
>
Thanks for this nice tool! So, the installation of GE is very fine. But,
the problem still exist. I don't have any ideas...
as root, GE run without any errors, but as user, there is a error about
a missing lib. But, if it run as root, this couldn't be, right?
Thanks for any help...
Greetings Raphael
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