Comment 23 for bug 587426

On 08/22/2010 01:41 PM, Skip Guenter wrote:
> OK, I got it working with the Debian package (actually used the PPA
> v5.10.58 x64)... This is ugly but if nothing else it's another
> confirmation that we've got a "boinc" user permissions problem with the
> ATI driver.
>
> In /etc/default/boinc-client I set the user to "root" in:
>
> # The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
> #BOINC_USER="boinc"
> BOINC_USER="root"
>
> Restarted and it finds the HD58xx card/driver and crunches on it in
> DNETC.

Skip, this is good news! Have many thanks. The "video" group I recall you
have tried already. So, maybe one should add to entries in /etc/group to
see if there is a group in the first place for the device needed :) Some

ls -lR /dev | less

might also bring more insights.

Cheers,

Steffen