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Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'



On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Now, the problem still remains that the acme thingy needs to set the
> PMU_IOC_GRAB_BACKLIGHT ioctl on the /dev/pmu device, and thus evidently need
> write access. The easy solution to this problem is to set it to a group, which
> the console-users get added to when loggin in. Does anyone know of such a group ?

Maybe the real question is what is acme and why does it think it needs
/dev/pmu?  After all the system has worked just fine without that for
years..



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