Updating files

Adam Voigt adam at kotisprop.com
Mon Mar 1 18:23:14 UTC 2004


Your not root actually, hence the "sambie@", do this on the terminal:

su -

Then enter the root password and do it again.


On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:19, Brittany wrote:
> Ok i downloaded the drivers for Nvidia and heres what it's trying to say
> whenever  try to install it in terminal:
> 
> [sambie at localhost Desktop]$ chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
> [sambie at 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 adaptor or remove it and install a newer version of the driver that is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
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Adam Voigt
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