Re: gkrellmd question

On Thursday 14 January 2010, you wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:18:35 -0500
> Rio <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > and i ran the client using this last configuration and it sees the vid perfectly :)
> > 
> > i am going to try running the regular distribution daemon now to see how that works
> > 
> > ok here is what happens..
> > 
> > i used your debug daemon in place of the production one. i ran it as my desktop user.. 
no 
> > video temps.. i ran it as root and ran the client as my desktop user and i have temps.
> > 
> > i have no clue how to check what has permission to open the x display. i could just 
run 
> > the daemon as root since it only looks at localhost. i will compile another gkrellmd 
since 
> > in my haste to try this i did not makea backup of the binary and try that as root.
> 
> So it seems it is a permissions problem.  When you login to X, only the login user
> has permission to open the X display.  And since nvidia-settings needs to talk
> to the X display kernel module, the gkrellmd program also needs that permission.
> The login user can give permission to other users using xhost.  The man page
> says that you can give permission to individual users, but it doesn't work for me.
> I can only give permission to all local users with:  xhost +local:
> Run xhost with no args to see the access list.
> 

interesting.. ok thanks.. 


> Bill
> 
> 
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