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The NVIDIA X driver uses a UNIX domain socket to pass information to other driver components. If unable to connect to this socket, some driver features, such as G-Sync, may not work correctly. The socket will be bound to a file with a name unique to the X server instance created in the directory specified by this option. Note that on Linux, an additional abstract socket (not associated with a file) will also be created, with this pathname socket serving as a fallback if connecting to the abstract socket fails. The default, which was in effect prior to this change, was `/var/run`. The effect of not setting this option was that GDM X sessions (and other non-root sessions) would see this warning in the log files: ``` (WW) NVIDIA: Failed to bind sideband socket to (WW) NVIDIA: '/var/run/nvidia-xdriver-b4f69129' Permission denied ``` I don't see any security implications of turning this on universally, since there already was an abstract socket created according to the docs. Documentation: 1. [NVIDIA X Config Options](https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/440.82/README/xconfigoptions.html#SidebandSocketPath) Diagnosis: 1. [Arch Linux BBS post](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1909115#p1909115) |
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