about login msg & screen brightness

[niel]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 04.49.50 Caleb Marcus wrote:
> 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.

sudo nvidia-settings :-)