nVidia from Freshrpms, selinux

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 23:53 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> Installed the nVidia driver from Freshrpms on F7, along with the dkms package. 
> When I rebooted, I got a bunch of nVidia denied messages. Someone had 
> mentioned in another thread going to the nVidia forum and getting some 
> suggestions about dealing with selinux; I found the following page and tried 
> some of the suggestions - some of the commands pointed to files that didn't 
> exist: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490
> Those didn't help.
> I turned selinux off, uninstalled the nVidia driver, and reinstalled it. Now 
> it appears to be working well with glxgears giving me nearly 3000 FPS.
> Can anyone suggest how to get selinux and the nVidia driver to play nice? 


I got it to work with a little persistence.

I installed the Livna version of the driver, but I'll bet it's similar.
The post talks about the following 4 commands:

# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
# chcon -t
texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.9631
# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.9631

Change them as follows:

# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so

The command:
# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1

...didn't work for me as I could not locate this file, or anything like
it, on my system. If someone knows what happened to this file, I'd love
to hear about it!

Even without this, my system then came up just fine. I've not
successfully gotten to work on both my desktop and laptop.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Chris


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