questions vanity lights

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:16:47PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:59:11AM +0100, Oliver Eichler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the latest add-on to control the XPS vanity lights is highly
> > appreciated. Just a couple questions:
> > 
> > 1. The tools will run just for root. What has to be done to use them as
> > user, too? How do I make the dcdbas driver to load automatically? I
> > guess I have to make an entry to modprobe.conf for a certain device. But
> > what has to be entered exactly?
> 
> You have to have root access to access dcdbas. Unless you make the binary
> setUid, this is not a limitation I can fix. I have not audited any of the code
> to ensure safety for setUid operation, though.
> 
> Autoloading the driver: I'm not sure. Most distributions have a file you can
> put the names of modules you want autoloaded at boot time.

For fedora 6+ (possibly earlier):

cat >> /etc/rc.modules <<-EOF
 modprobe dcdbas
EOF
chmod +x /etc/rc.modules


I'm sure others can mention how other distros work. 

--
Michael