Thanks.
La mine se intampla destul de rar, si nu am stat sa dau de "root of the
evil". Cred ca deoarece eu folosesc x-ul in genere doar pe contul meu,
iar /dev/nvidia* avea setat ca si owner user-ul meu.
//cioby
On Du, 2001-09-09 at 07:54, Florin Andrei wrote:
>
> Daca mai are cineva probleme cu driverul de nVidia pe sisteme in care
> console.perms face glume cu fisierele din /dev, am gasit o solutie.
> Puteti folosi URL-ul din mesajul atasat ca sa urmariti evolutia in timp
> a bug-reportului (poate cineva gaseste o solutie mai buna...).
>
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> Subject: [Bug 53447] New - console.perms trashes the nVidia driver
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53447
>
> +Summary: console.perms trashes the nVidia driver
> +
> +From Bugzilla Helper:
> +User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1)
> +Gecko/20010622
> +
> +Description of problem:
> +The nVidia drivers (downloaded from nVidia) require 666 perms on
> +/dev/nvidia* in order to work correctly. But /etc/security/console.perms
> +set 600 on those files.
> +As a result, after several login/logout to/from my account (i use runlevel
> +5), or after several CTRL-ALT-F1/F7, X Window is frozen, no keyboard, no
> +mouse, i have to use the magic SysRq to reboot the computer.
> +
> +Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> +
> +
> +How reproducible:
> +Always
> +
> +Steps to Reproduce:
> +1.Install RH7.1 and Ximian Gnome
> +2.Install nVidia drivers
> +3.Login/logout from your X sessions several times
> +
> +
> +Actual Results: The display is frozen, i have to reboot the machine.
> +
> +Expected Results: X Window should work normally.
> +
> +Additional info:
> +
> +My system:
> +- Red Hat 7.1
> +- Ximian Gnome 1.4
> +- kernel 2.4.9 compiled by myself
> +- nVidia GeForce2 MX-400 32 MB RAM
> +- latest nVidia drivers (1512, but the problem was the same with the older
> +ones)
> +- motherboard i815
> +
> +I managed to fix the problem by replacing this line in
> +/etc/security/console.perms:
> +
> +<xconsole> 0600 <dri> 0600 root
> +
> +with this line:
> +
> +<xconsole> 0666 <dri> 0666 root
> +
> +(it's actually the last line in the file)
> +I don't know the possible security implications of this change. But as soon
> +as i did it, the bug was fixed. Now my system works soooo nice!
> +And the change is right in the opinion of the guys from nVidia; here's what
> +Andy Ritger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> +
> +Thanks for reporting your problem. We've not actually seen this in house,
> +but have had several similar reports. Here are several things to check
> +(though I doubt any of them are the culprit):
> +
> +o The permissions on the /dev/nvidia* files should be 0666 (some
> +distributions have been changing permissions on our device files and
> +causing all sorts of foolishness).
>
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