Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:29:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >>> Meanwhile, now that I've had to become a member of the video group >>> to get *hardware* accelerated rendering to work (years ago, the >>> 'chmod 0660' was enough for what was available). I think the >>> instructions on membership of that group ought to be reinstated. I >>> guess that putting in a configuration section in MesaLib is probably >>> the best place. I'll do it if nobody objects, but I'm open to >>> alternative suggestions for where to add it.
>> Why not just make the permissions 0666? > Note that I no longer need the chmod, the device and group appear > to be created in Mesa. I suppose someone could add a udev rule, but > then you would need to get that executed (e.g. by rebooting) before > a regular user could use DRI2. Which device is that? /dev/dri/card0? I'd think the kernel/udev would create it at boot. I don't have an ATI graphics card to test, but I'm interested. I'll look at the source, but I need to know what to look for. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
