On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:25:43PM -0800, Dale wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:06:30AM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > I installed the nvidia-6629 driver for x86_64 on a amd64 pc today > > using the nvidia installer and put the /dev/nvidia* devices in > > /etc/udev/devices/ correctly. > > X starts up fine and everything is OK but when I try to run glxgears > > I get the well known message: > > 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. > > Is the 'solution' suggested in the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section > > of the nvidia README still relevant in the udev era. > > (namely: remove line from /etc/security/console.perms starting with <dri>). > > Or does this entail some other changes elsewhere when using udev. > The udev-era solution that I used (as I didn't mind the security > implication of world access on this particular system) was to create > a local file (thereby not conflicting with distributed files) called: > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-local.permissions > which contains the single line: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > nvidia*:root:root:0666 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the reply but going by the udev documentation and looking at the '50-udev.permissions' file which already contains a stanza for 'nvidia*', '3dfx*' and 'dri/*' (but with permissions:0660) I had already tried this (with permissions:0666). However this does not work! I still get the segfault when trying to run 'glxgears' or 'tux' and the message: 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. I have also tried creating a 'video' group and adding myself to it and then trying with 'nvidia*:root:video:0666' but this also did not work. So obviously the "permissions" have to be changed somewhere else and I have no clue how to do it. Does the simple one line '50-local.permissions' file work for you. Can you run glxgears and tux? Alexander
