How to make permissions on "/dev/nvidia" stick?

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

Hi,

Following a reboot/powerup before starting doom3 or unreal; I have to
modify the permissions on the following files:
================================================================
[root@lion ~]# ls -l /dev/nvid*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Jan 15 23:41 /dev/nvidia
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   0 Nov  7 19:05 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Nov  7 19:05 /dev/nvidiactl
================================================================

Does anyone know the trick to make this stick?
Following a reboot I must execute:
chmod o+rw /dev/nvid*

I am using "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run"

Thanks,
Ernesto

[Jef Spaleta]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:24:55 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr.
 wrote:
> Does anyone know the trick to make this stick?
> Following a reboot I must execute:
> chmod o+rw /dev/nvid*
>
> I am using "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run"

The permissions change for me automatically when i log into the
console via the pam_console mechanism.  And then the permissions
revert back to default permissions when a user is not at the console.
If you want to change that behavior you may have to edit the udev
device defaults for the nvidia devices and the console.perms.

did you follow the documented instructions on how to get nvidia
working with udev?
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

does /etc/security/console.perms have the lines
<dri>=/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx*
and
<xconsole> 0600 <dri>        0600 root

-jef

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:36 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:24:55 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr.
>  wrote:
> > Does anyone know the trick to make this stick?
> > Following a reboot I must execute:
> > chmod o+rw /dev/nvid*
> >
> > I am using "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run"
>
> The permissions change for me automatically when i log into the
> console via the pam_console mechanism.  And then the permissions
> revert back to default permissions when a user is not at the console.
> If you want to change that behavior you may have to edit the udev
> device defaults for the nvidia devices and the console.perms.
>
> did you follow the documented instructions on how to get nvidia
> working with udev?
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
>
> does /etc/security/console.perms have the lines
> <dri>=/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx*
> and
> <xconsole> 0600 <dri>        0600 root

Yes, but the nvidia instructions wanted those lines commented out.
> -jef

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:24 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following a reboot/powerup before starting doom3 or unreal; I have to
> modify the permissions on the following files

I think your mail is somewhat off topic for this list about testing the
latest fedora rawhide/betas and is more suitable for the generic fedora-
list user oriented list.

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:41 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:24 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Following a reboot/powerup before starting doom3 or unreal; I have to
> > modify the permissions on the following files
>
> I think your mail is somewhat off topic for this list about testing the
> latest fedora rawhide/betas and is more suitable for the generic fedora-
> list user oriented list.

Sorry. You are right. I will use the Fedora List next time.
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[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

well, kinda hackish, but you should be able to get around by doing the
chmod in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

søn, 16.01.2005 kl. 22.24 skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.:
> Hi,
>
> Following a reboot/powerup before starting doom3 or unreal; I have to
> modify the permissions on the following files:
> ================================================================
> [root@lion ~]# ls -l /dev/nvid*
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Jan 15 23:41 /dev/nvidia
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   0 Nov  7 19:05 /dev/nvidia0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Nov  7 19:05 /dev/nvidiactl
> ================================================================
>
> Does anyone know the trick to make this stick?
> Following a reboot I must execute:
> chmod o+rw /dev/nvid*
>
> I am using "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run"
>
> Thanks,
> Ernesto