How to make permissions on "/dev/nvidia" stick?

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Jan 17 16:04:35 UTC 2005


well, kinda hackish, but you should be able to get around by doing the
chmod in /etc/rc.d/rc.local


søn, 16.01.2005 kl. 22.24 skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.:
> Hi,
> 
> Following a reboot/powerup before starting doom3 or unreal; I have to
> modify the permissions on the following files:
> ================================================================
> [root at lion ~]# ls -l /dev/nvid*
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Jan 15 23:41 /dev/nvidia
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   0 Nov  7 19:05 /dev/nvidia0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Nov  7 19:05 /dev/nvidiactl
> ================================================================
> 
> 
> Does anyone know the trick to make this stick?
> Following a reboot I must execute:
> chmod o+rw /dev/nvid*
> 
> I am using "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ernesto




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