I migrated to 2.6.10, and use NVIDIA's proprietary module. Unless I run

chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia/*, a lot of the GL capabilities are reduced. One of the side effects is that I am unable to run make gconfig in my kernel source directory as root. I know that this has something to do with the syntax in the chmod 0666. I got that instruction from the NVIDIA docs; how can I fix this?

what error on gconfig? if it's bailing on you it's probably either your code or your libs ( it always seg faults on me and I have never used chmod on the nvidia device files). can you use the qt or ncurses ui?

This is what happens when I run 'make gconfig':

scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/i386/Kconfig

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 2792 (gtk_label_set_use_underline): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gconf:29075): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1716: signal `pressed' is invalid for instance `0x80cc440'

(gconf:29075): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1716: signal `pressed' is invalid for instance `0x80cdf18'

(gconf:29075): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1716: signal `pressed' is invalid for instance `0x80ce378'

(gconf:29075): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1716: signal `pressed' is invalid for instance `0x80cc890'

(gconf:29075): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1716: signal `pressed' is invalid for instance `0x80ca248'
make[1]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault
make: *** [gconfig] Error 2

Does this help?

looks like a code problem, it's failing alot of assertions before it bails on the seg fault ( run "strace make gconfig" to see what I mean). I'd use make xconfig or make menuconfig.