NVIDIA permissions

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 02:16:48PM -0700, Paul Daniel Jones wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have found with the latest NVIDIA drivers that I keep getting error
> messages indicating that /dev/nvidiaactl could not be opened because of
> restrictive permissions. So, following the README, I
> edited /etc/security/console.perms (removed line with <dri>) and ran 
> chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* followed by chown root /dev/nvidia*.
> 
> The problem is I have to do this after each reboot. Is there a way to
> make this stick?
> 
> paul
If I remember correctly you should remove the dri line from the
xorg.conf.
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