John Gnew wrote these words on 04/15/05 18:14 CST: > I have just come across the following change that I needed to make in > order for glxgears to work: > > KERNEL="nvidia[0-9]*", GROUP="video" > KERNEL="nvidiactl", GROUP="video" > to > KERNEL="nvidia[0-9]*", GROUP="video", MODE="0666" > KERNEL="nvidiactl", GROUP="video", MODE="0666" > > What do I need to do to get this change made in LFS? (provided everyone > goes along with the change)
I believe the preferred method of handling this issue is to add the users needing access to the 'video' group, instead of giving world permission to the device files. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 18:21:00 up 13 days, 17:54, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.06 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
