Fedora 7, Nvida driver and SELinux

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Tue Jun 12 14:44:16 CEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 10:46 +0200, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> 2007/6/12, Matthias Saou
> <thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>:
> > Trond Danielsen wrote :
> >
> > > Thanks for your reply! The problem was solved in release 3 of
> > > nvidia-x11-drv. However, another problem has emerged, and I think this
> > > is SELinux related too. If I run in enforcing mode, X instantly
> > > crashes if I run glxinfo or any other GL-related application. In
> > > permissive mode everything is fine. In enforcing mode, I find an error
> > > in Xorg.0.log saying that the GLX module cannot be loaded. I suspect
> > > this might be because of some mislabeling of the nvidia library files,
> > > but I am no SELinux expert, so I cannot say for sure. If somebody has
> > > a solution to this, I would be grateful, otherwise I will continue my
> > > search for a solution.
> >
> > In enforcing mode, things work fine for me :-/
> > Could this be the missing ModulePath lines I've just described in
> > another post?
> >
> > Matthias
> 
> Black magic and voodoo at work... Remove, reboot, reinstall, reboot,
> and things seems to be working again. It think an incorrect module
> path was indeed the problem.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Any change of updating the older driver, the 96xx version? 

Thanks,

tjb
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