about login msg & screen brightness

[Caleb Marcus]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:56 -0800, winter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> got 2 questions rearding my newly installed ubuntu 7.10 on  toshiba
> laptop with 1.6G processor, 64MB nvidia graphic crd & 1 G RAM. 
> 
> 1) every time after i login using the root a/c, a prompt came out
> saying: this session is running as privilaged user ....... and ask me
> if i want to continue/ quit. Anyone know how do i get rid of this
> annoying dialog box?
> 
> 2) Is it any supported program that can let the user adjust the
> brightness of the screen? i try to install  the nvidia-setting but it
> conflicked with other nvidia program....
> 
> Thanks in advance to anyone  who can help.
> 
> cheers,
> winter.

As for the root user thing, you shouldn't be logging in as root. For
screen brightness, nvidia drivers won't help... your screen's brightness
isn't controlled by your nVidia card.
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