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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