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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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ndevenish
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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