UT2004 Crashes

[Emily Brantley]

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 at bellsouth.net>
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