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Old 08-18-2005, 12:28 PM   #1
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Few questions: permissions, graphics mainly...


Ok, Ive got Mandriva power pack up and running on my Thinkpad t41. Now, my first question is, it installed the ATI drivers by default. How do I know if I have 3-d acceleration enabled?

Second, Im trying to access my external hard drive, and it keeps griping about the permissions. I can access as root, but I need normal user privilidges. How can I change this?

Sorry if these sound n00bish, and I am by no means a n00b, but Ive been out of the linux game for about 1.5 years, and I dont even remember basic shell commands
 
Old 08-18-2005, 01:01 PM   #2
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Re: Few questions: permissions, graphics mainly...

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Second, Im trying to access my external hard drive, and it keeps griping about the permissions. I can access as root, but I need normal user privilidges. How can I change this?
You can use autofs or even configure it via /etc/fstab. For autofs see http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vi...unt-linux.html for /etc/fstab pass options
auto: File system is automatically determined by kernel.
user: Normal user are allowed to mount devices, read man page of fstab for format.

Hope this helps
 
Old 08-18-2005, 01:13 PM   #3
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How do I know if I have 3-d acceleration enabled?
at a terminal, type
Code:
glxinfo | grep direct
Please try a search, there's a ton of threads asking this question or questions like it.
 
Old 08-18-2005, 05:03 PM   #4
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Re: Re: Few questions: permissions, graphics mainly...

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You can use autofs or even configure it via /etc/fstab. For autofs see http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vi...unt-linux.html for /etc/fstab pass options
auto: File system is automatically determined by kernel.
user: Normal user are allowed to mount devices, read man page of fstab for format.

Hope this helps
Ok, Ive tried this and cant get it to mount as user or root now. I can post my fstab if it will help.
 
  


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