nvidia permissions are too restrictive

[Erik Bågfors]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:34:02 +0100, josé ángel madrid gómez
<joseangelmadrid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski escribió el 14/01/05 12:42:
> > On Friday 14 of January 2005 12:34, josé ángel madrid gómez wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Now I think I should check if video group has permissions to modify
> >>/dev/nvidiatcl . Am I wrong?
> >
> >
> >  You're right. Type ls -l /dev/nvidiatcl and see. Too bad I'm not home with my
> > NVidia card, I could be more specyfic.
> > 
> Ok, as listed by *ls -l, /dev/nvidiactl*:
> 
> /dev$ ls -l nvidiactl
> crw-rw----  1 root video 195, 255 2005-01-14 12:32 nvidiactl
> 
> so it seems that the owner is root, and the group is video. Mmm, i
> thought that my user was added to the video group {at least, the GUI
> tool for managing groups has allowed me to add my user to the video
> group}, but a "groups" command shows:
> 
> my-user adm dialout cdrom floppy audio
> 
> no video group
> 
> but, a sudo adduser my-user video says that my-user is already a member
> of the video group. Still, glxgears just works if i sudo it.

already opened shells still have the old userlist.
Try to log out and in again.

/Erik