[ltp] Enabling ThinkPad buttons R31 & SUSE 10.1

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:02:57 -0400


Bernhard Sputh wrote:
> 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.

I didn't find that file, but I did find
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

However changing the mode for nvram there, didn't cause any effect in
/dev/nvram permissions.