On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 22:48, Nick Wilson wrote: > * and then mwafkowski declared.... > > Yes - It means that you don't have the required 3D drivers installed. NV > > drivers I believe are your bread and butter 2D drivers... > > Okay, So I installed the glx and kernel rpms as per the readme and now I > get this when trying to run tuxracer: > > NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied) > Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions > are too restrictive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS > section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps > to correct. > > but I don't seem to have that document? - I seem to be in a bit of a > mess... ;-) If you can't find that README file, you can get it from here. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496.html Basically you need to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file to allow the use of the new driver you installed. So what you need to do, is to replace the 'nv' in that file to 'nvidia'. And remove the DRI stuff. (There is alot more that can be modified but that depends on your system and Graphics board. Wolf
