David Dawes writes: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:46:15PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > >David Dawes wrote: > >> > >> The sis driver goes one better and allows you to tell it which file to > >> to overwrite :-( > > > >This has no real function other than debugging. It's to make it easy for > >people to send me their video BIOS images. Can be removed any time. > > Looking at it more closely, the mga case seems much worse. The sis driver > only writes to a file name specified in the XF86Config file, and only > root should be able to specify that. >
I've looked into this. There seems to be no way to to make it safe using the functions that are available to drivers. Required functions are not exported and probably shouldn't be. I have therefore disabled the write back of mode data to the application. The problem affects only Xservers which use Matrox's HAL library. There are only very few cases where this library is still needed. Egbert. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
