On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:36 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:24:55 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. > <ernesto@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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" > > The permissions change for me automatically when i log into the > console via the pam_console mechanism. And then the permissions > revert back to default permissions when a user is not at the console. > If you want to change that behavior you may have to edit the udev > device defaults for the nvidia devices and the console.perms. > > did you follow the documented instructions on how to get nvidia > working with udev? > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ > > does /etc/security/console.perms have the lines > <dri>=/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx* > and > <xconsole> 0600 <dri> 0600 root Yes, but the nvidia instructions wanted those lines commented out. > > -jef >