[ltp] Enabling ThinkPad buttons R31 & SUSE 10.1

[Bernhard Sputh]

On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:23, James Knott wrote:
> According to "Personal Settings"
> "IBM ThinkPad Laptop, /dev/nvram permissions are supposed to be set to
> 666.  However, I cannot get that value to stick.  Instead, I get 644.
> I've tried adding a mode to the mknod line in /etc/init.d/after.local
> and also a separate chmod line.  Neither of these seems to work.  Any
> idea how I can get the permissions to stay at 666?

Yes, use udev, look under "/etc/udev/permissions.d/". The file(s) in this 
directory define the permissions of the device nodes managed by udev. Simply 
grep for "nvram" and You should find the responsible entry, adjust and 
restart udev. That's it.

Cheers
Bernhard


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