On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 23:39, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2003 07:28 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > > I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had to issue a couple of > > commands to get other permissions straight for some programs. have you > > tried as root with out the quotes; " > > " cd /etc/security/ > > chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* > > chown root /dev/nvidia* > > > > and see if it helps. > > Oh that stuff - yeah, thats pretty standard and I do it almost out of habit > whenever I install nvidia stuff. <grin> thanks though! > > Er, wait a minute - why do you change to /etc/security then change > permissions/ownership in a different place - /dev/nvidia? I don't quite > understand that.../dev is not in /etc/security. > > Thanks. you are correct, that was me not paying attention very well as I copy and pasted the history from a term window... sorry for the confusion
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