[Solved] Re: UT2004 Crashes

[Steve Fink]

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.
> 
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