On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 08:52 -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > Everyone, > > I've successfully dodged several FC3 caveats with the wonderful > information from this list. > > But here's one I haven't seen covered. > > UT2004 Crashes saying: > > open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy > Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions > are too resticitive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS > section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps > to correct. > Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault] > Aborting. > > I read the FAQ that it refers to and it simply said "Turn off security". > I was hoping for something a little more detailed. I'm sure this is > either a SELinux or udev problem. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? steve, this is a udev thing, probably. in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50- udev.permissions you can find the following line: nvidia*:root:root:0660 that makes anything nvidia completely inaccessible to anybody but root, even to read. the solution is simple. create the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-local.permissions and put a single line in it: nvidia*:root:root:0666 this will override the mode in the main file (10 comes before 50 alphabetically) and let users read and write to it. after a reboot (when the device will be recreated) it should work. i had to do this for some dri stuff of my own too. -- Emily Brantley <located@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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