> With systemd running, it's responsible for setting the ACLs on the devices. > Try "systemd-loginctl list-sessions" and "systemd-loginctl > show-session X" (with X=session number). Your X11 session should be > active. Thanks for the hint. it didn't return any session, so in `/etc/pam.d/lightdm` I added:: session required pam_systemd.so and now all is good. Results posted below for completeness:: $ systemd-loginctl SESSION UID USER SEAT c2 1000 damjan seat0 $ systemd-loginctl show-session c2 Id=c2 Name=damjan Timestamp=Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:36:34 +0100 TimestampMonotonic=8036244211 ControlGroupPath=/user/damjan/c2 VTNr=7 Display=:0 Remote=no Service=lightdm Leader=447 Audit=0 Type=x11 Active=yes KillProcesses=no IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 $ getfacl /dev/dri/card0 getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/dri/card0 # owner: root # group: video user::rw- user:damjan:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- -- дамјан