Ok i downloaded the drivers for Nvidia and heres what it's trying to say whenever try to install it in terminal: [sambie@localhost Desktop]$ chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run [sambie@localhost Desktop]$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0- 5336................................................................................................................................................................................ nvidia-installer: Error opening log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for writing (Permission denied); disabling logging. I am logged onto root, as it shows the keys on the right bottom of my desktop. Is their anything that im doing wrong? On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:45 -0600, Dennis Calhoun wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:33:30 -0500, you wrote: > > >Hello again. > > > >Whenever i update my files it gives me another, newer version whenever i > >reboot my machine but what the problem is that i cannot access the > >graphical desktop. it gives me the text only. how can i fix it so that > >it can work? > > If I read this right, you are speaking of a problem that you are > having whenever you update your kernel, right? > > If so and if you have a non-standard driver for your display adaptor > installed, such as nvidia, you will have to either recompile the > adaptor or remove it and install a newer version of the driver that is > already appropriate for the newer kernel. > > Every time I do a kernel update I have to recompile the nvidia driver > for my system, using text commands only, before the GUI can be > accessed using the new kernel. I do so by changing to the directory > that contains the driver file and then running it with the command > sh <filename> > where <filename> is the exact name of the driver file. > > So far this has worked well for me every time, without having to do > anything else outside of the actual installation procedures that the > driver script presents. > > Dennis C. > -- Brittany Operating system used by Fedora Core 1.90 Test 1 Linux (Red hat) Website: http://www.redhat.com/ Downloads http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/
