I have lingering setup and I can still access the container but for what ever reason Podman seems to be unable to access the GPU for no apparent reason.

I think this may be an issue with systemd but I’m not entirely sure.

Solution: you need to be logged in for it to work. I accomplished this on a separate VM with autologin to icewm.

    • metiulekmEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Actually there probably is one. I thought that the classic way of managing permission by the video group is gone, but in all my installs (Arch and NixOS) the GPU devices (/dev/video* EDIT: /dev/dri/card*, the previous one is your webcam) are still owned by root:video. Maybe just adding your user to video group will work? Arch Wiki even suggests this in this case:

      There are some notable exceptions which require adding a user to some of these groups: for example if you want to allow users to access the device even when they are not logged in.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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        9 months ago

        For me it is owned by the video user and the render group.

        I don’t mind running iceWM in a VM as it has a fairly small overhead. Its not like I’m actually using the desktop so it takes pennies worth of ram and no CPU

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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            9 months ago

            I already did that so that podman could access the device. (Podman runs as a local user). What was strange was that podman couldn’t access it without a graphical session running but my local user could.

            • metiulekmEnglish
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              9 months ago

              No idea then :( AFAIK the logind mechanism I mentioned originally is based only on permissions, but I had never really needed to look into it further.