livna nvidia driver works with FC6 root but not other users

terence8888 · 06-24-2007, 01:19 AM

I installed the livna nvidia driver on my FC6 machine. It works well when I'm log in as root but does not work if I'm a user.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

GregLee · 06-24-2007, 08:31 AM

Make sure Xorg is suid root. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log after a failed attempt to see what the complaint is.

terence8888 · 06-25-2007, 04:49 AM

It's probably a dumb question: How do I make Xorg suid root?

Thanks for your patience.

GregLee · 06-25-2007, 07:54 AM

As root, say "chmod u+s Xorg". If Xorg is suid root, "ls -l Xorg" will display "-rws--x--x", with the 4th character "s" instead of "x".

terence8888 · 06-26-2007, 03:27 AM

Thanks! Will try that and report back!

terence8888 · 06-28-2007, 01:59 AM

X org is already -rws--x--x.

If I do startx, I get the Nvidia logo and then it crashes. I think the following maybe the relevant message:

" mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied"

What do I do? Thanks in advance.

GregLee · 06-28-2007, 09:20 AM

Beats me. Check with ls -l that /tmp and /var/tmp have permissions: drwxrwxrwt

terence8888 · 06-30-2007, 09:18 AM

It turned out that for some reason, /tmp is not writeable by user.... I did chmod 777 /tmp and the problem is gone.

Thanks a lot for your help.