On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:53:14 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From the article: > -=-=-=-=-=-=- > Inside that file I learned I must edit this file: > > /etc/security/console.perms > > In particular, console.perms contains the following line which needs to > be deleted: > > =/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx* > > Finally, I needed to issue the following commands: > > chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* > chown root /dev/nvidia* > > -=-=-=-=-=-=- > > That's wrong. console.perms is the right way to do it. You don't want > 666 permissions on a device node. > > Maybe the perms in console.perms are incorrect (tuxracer worked > perfectly for me in gnome - don't know why kde would be any different) > but taking it out of console.perms and chmod 0666 may work but is > wrong. Unfortunately udev sets the permissions for nvidia in file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions. Change the permissions for nvidia there. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
