nVidia drivers and xorg

Ivan Gyurdiev ivg2 at cornell.edu
Wed May 18 13:21:19 UTC 2005


> For example, the livna rpms for nvidia come with a magically script
> that will revert
> the Xconfig back under some circumstances so that X will start up in
> case the nvidia driver isn't detected.

I believe it writes over xorg.conf no matter what, and tries to backup
the old one. However, SELinux doesn't like that.

audit(1116422231.403:0): avc:  denied  { rename } for  name=xorg.conf
dev=dm-0 ino=668422 scontext=root:system_r:initrc_t
tcontext=root:object_r:etc_t tclass=file

audit(1116422231.403:0): avc:  denied  { unlink } for
name=xorg.conf.backup-nvidia-glx dev=dm-0 ino=665288
scontext=root:system_r:initrc_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_t
tclass=file

audit(1116422231.592:0): avc:  denied  { unlink } for
name=xorg.conf.backup-nvidia-glx dev=dm-0 ino=668422
scontext=root:system_r:initrc_t tcontext=root:object_r:etc_t tclass=file


-- 
Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
Cornell University




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