Bug#801869: nvidia-graphics-drivers: setting /dev/nvidia* to root:video 0660 breaks gdm3, sddm, ...

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 12:54 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2015-10-17 23:44, Maik Zumstrull wrote:
> > If it has, I don't think it's working quite right - I had to put both
> > Debian-gdm and my personal account into the video group permanently to
> > get a GNOME session just now. No magic happening. Consolekit isn't
> > installed, nothing in the GNOME area seems to depend on it anymore.
> 
> Luca, can you verify that in your jessie test setup?
> 
> Is there anything consolekit related installed?

The consolekit package is not installed, and the libck-connector0
library is not installed as well.

> * ensure that your user account is *not* in group video (I think the
> first user created upon installation may be added to a few more groups
> including video ...)

My user was in the video group as you guessed, removed.

> * ensure that Debian-gdm is in group video

Added.

> * use nvidia-driver from backports (that should load with root:video 0660)

Installed, and those are the permissions.

> Expected: gdm starts, what about using glx as a user?

Nope, oopses with usual error :-(

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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