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

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Sun Jan 16 21:24:55 UTC 2005


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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