nvidia permissions are too restrictive

[josé ángel madrid gómez]

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski escribió el 14/01/05 12:24:
> On Friday 14 of January 2005 11:47, josé ángel madrid gómez wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yeah, there is a video group, but I can't see a /dev/nvidiactl group nor
>>user. 
> 
> 
>  No, no. It works like this. A device (ie. /dev/audio) has a read/write access 
> for a audio group. Go to a shell and type ,,groups'' to see what groups is 
> your user in. If you want to disallow access to an audio for somebody, you  
> simply remove him from audio group. It's ok for users who are using os with 
> ssh/VNC. He would not be able to do mpg123 noisysound.mp3 while you work.
> 
>  Same goes for video. There's an video group. 
> 
>  Read manpages for: addgroup, adduser. See /etc/passwd and /etc/group for 
> details.
> 
I have used the graphical tool to add my user to the video group. still
i can't run glxgears. Still it says that permissions are too restrictive.
Now I think I should check if video group has permissions to modify
/dev/nvidiatcl . Am I wrong?

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