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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>:
>
> > I don't know if this is related, but I have to cast nvidia without X 
> > going. Also recently, my /dev/nvidia* has go-rw priviledges
>
>
> NVIDIA's installer tries to rmmod/insmod the "nvidia" module, so if the module
> is in use the installer fails.
>
> As for permissions, you should modify /etc/udev/udev.permissions to give 
> nvidia*
> 0666 permissions (IIRC). Should we add that to udev?
What about as part of the nvidia spell? Maybe as a configuration option.
Because this will be a problem with newbies.

This is one thing I find with Sourcemage, that is I have to learn about 
configuring things. An example is getting gphoto2 to download the photos 
from my G3 camera, I have to manually setup the hotplug scripts so users 
can access the camera. I'm not sure about security issues, but this is 
one difference between Sourcemage and Mandrake, generally, things work 
in Mandrake.

Just some thoughts, Duane.