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ndevenish
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3 years ago
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Configuring for non-root-user access without "Error opening AFC: insufficient privileges"

We have a new machine with two PAC D5005 cards, which we intend to use both for compilation and running. Because the oneAPI toolkit requires Red Hat 8, and the PAC drivers only support Red Hat 7, I h...
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    ndevenish
    3 years ago

    Hi @BoonBengT_Altera ,

    This didn't work directly - however it did lead me to discover that I needed to change the permissions on /dev/intel-fpga-fme.0 and /dev/intel-fpga-port.0 to 0666 (chmod a+rw). This now works from other users (and I could change the group details if I needed finer control).

    Thank you.

    Nick

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BoonBengT_Altera
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3 years ago

Hi @ndevenish,


Great! Good to know that it is working now and thanks for sharing the workaround for that.

My guess is that there might be some different in granting access based on the hardware and platform setup.

With no further clarification on this thread, it will be transitioned to community support for further help on doubts in this thread.

Thank you for the questions and as always pleasure having you here.


Best Wishes

BB