On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 05:39, Jim Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > I manage a student lab in which the machines have nVidia or ATI graphics > cards. Wanting 3D acceleration I use the evil proprietary drivers on > them. Neither of these drivers register themselves so that there is no > trace of the 3D interface devices in sysfs (/dev/nvidia0, /dev/nvidiactl, > /dev/dri/card0). So I assume that HAL doesn't even know that the devices > exist, unless someone tells it. > > In my previous distro version, OpenSuSE 10.3, they used resmgr and I > simply provided a file in /etc/resmgr.conf.d that said > ongrant video run /usr/local/sbin/resgrant > (and similarly onrevoke); the script does chown $RES_USER $device (for > the device actually on the machine). > > OpenSuSE 11.1 no longer includes resmgr. An alternative is to put > equivalent code into /etc/X11/xdm/GiveDevices or the equivalent for > whatever display manager, but if that were the "right" way the distro > would have done it, and they didn't.
No idea about the "right way". :) But you should be able to port the resmgr stuff to /etc/ConsoleKit/run-session.d/. Kay _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
