NVIDIA with games experience....

[Michael A. Peters]

On 10/06/2004 04:17:25 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:

> 
> > I do have to run the game as root to overcome some permission
> problems
> > with the NVIDIA devices.
> 
> You should not have to do this, and it can lead to other problems
> (don't
> let apps like a game crash while as root, not pretty).  Is this  
> system
> a
> clean install of FC3t2 or an upgrade from a previous version?

If you really do need to run as root - then probably what you *really*  
need to do is update /etc/security/console.perms so that pam_console (I  
think it is pam_console) sets the permissions on those nodes properly  
at login.

If there are extra device nodes nvidia uses that are not part of core,  
then this may be the case, and the nvidia kernel module %post script  
should be updated to reflect this.

Wouldn't it be nice if Fedora used an embedded database (they already  
have one for rpm - berkeley db) to store the kind of information in / 
etc/security/console.perms?

That would make modification of that info by packages that need to  
(tiser kernel module for serial cable ti connection, jack audio  
connection kit for the mount point of the tempfs, etc.) a lot easier  
and safer to script.