nVidia from Freshrpms, selinux
Joachim Kunze
joachim at resistance.de
Mon Jun 4 06:25:53 UTC 2007
I've also encountered problems with the rpm-packages from livna and
freshrpms, but I've installed the nvidia beta-driver 100.14.06 from
nvidias beta site:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html and it
works perfectly well. udev is used correctly there.
Jo
Am Sonntag, den 03.06.2007, 22:28 -0700 schrieb Joel Gomberg:
> 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?
> >
> >
> The problem -- at least with the Livna RPMs -- is that device files were
> installed into /etc/udev/devices, which has been deprecated. The latest version
> of the Livna RPM makes SELinux happy by creating the device files through
> /etc/udev/makedev.d per Harald Hoyer's comment at:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241712#c15
>
> and see
>
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1504
>
> Based on your description, I would guess that the driver from freshrpms has the
> same defect.
>
> --
> Joel
>
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