[ltp] R51 - OSD not working

Jano Kula linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:49:27 +0200


> That depends on what device management system your distribution uses.
> If it uses devfs (doesn't look like, /dev/nvram would be a link in that
> case) you have to edit /etc/devfsd.conf, for udev you have to go for
> /etc/udev/permissions.d. If it uses neither, i.e. if /dev is a regular
> static directory, you have to figure out yourself which boot script
> restores the strict permissions.

Thank you both.

file (Fedora Core 3)
/etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions

lists the lines:
# misc devices
nvram:root:root:0660

changing to:
# misc devices
nvram:root:nvram:0660

did the job.

Thanks

Jano