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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

I don't know if this is related, but I have to cast nvidia without X 
going. Also recently, my /dev/nvidia* has go-rw priviledges

Duane

Robin Sheat wrote:
> The new(?) nvidia_driver won't build:
> Waiting for any Solo casts to complete...
> Waiting for any other casts of nvidia_driver to complete... done.
> Building nvidia_driver
> Unpacking source file NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run for spell 
> nvidia_driver.
> rmdir: `/usr/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1': Device or resource 
> busy
>
> make: Circular gimp-print <- cups dependency dropped.
> make: *** No rule to make target `windowmaker', needed by `WindowMaker'.
> make: *** No rule to make target `tetex-texmf', needed by `teTeX-texmf'.
> make: *** No rule to make target `tetex', needed by `teTeX'.
> make: Circular nessus-plugins <- nessus-core dependency dropped.
> make: Target `all' not remade because of errors.
>
> Spells that encountered problems:
> ---------------------------------
> nvidia_driver
>
> ...I'd submit a bug for it, but I have no GUI, have been battling with 
> converting my mbox system to Maildir (gave up: couldn't convince 
> procmail to save files in Maildir, couldn't convince dovecot to view 
> /var/spool/mail as the inbox, and no GUI makes things that much more 
> awkward. It can all be something for another day.)
>
> Oh, also, I tried reverting to the previous NVIDIA_driver, but trying to 
> run something with it caused an Oops.
>
>
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