Re: xcdroast

From: Tom Allison (tallison_at_tacocat.net)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:07:26 -0500
    To: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
    
    

    Rogério Brito wrote:
    > On Dec 31 2004, Tom Allison wrote:
    >
    >>Unfortunately what is not solved in kernel 2.6.9 is my NVIDIA drivers
    >>won't install. why? I don't know..
    >
    >
    > I know. Because you shouldn't have bought a card with binary only drivers
    > in the first place.
    >
    > Doing that results in you having the problems that you're having now, with
    > problems on each upgrade that you try.
    >
    > OTOH, try to disable the suid bit on cdrecord (dpkg-reconfigure -plow
    > cdrecord) and see if helps with the kernel that you have.
    >
    >

    Guilty as charged on the video card. But it's one of the better ones I
    could find. In the future what would you recommend for 3D graphics cards?

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