Emily, Thanks! Works great! Steve On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 17:14 -0500, Emily Brantley wrote: > 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ------------------------- Steve Fink GPG Public Key 1024D/0FF85E51
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