Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On 08/04/12 11:19, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>> OK, so it's udev rather than Mesa that determines the group name. >>> But, in all current LFS builds we *don't* have such a rule. To me, >>> it seems more reliable to add users to the video group. After all, >>> we've defined that group for a long time. >> That's true. I suspect either way will work. The problem with the >> group is that each user has to be added to that group while the udev >> rule makes hw acceleration available for all users at one time. Of >> course in most cases there is only one user. :) > I personally don't like the idea of giving access to everyone which > would include the user nobody and other 'guest' type users. I do understand that some will be more comfortable with the tighter permissions just on principle, but I'm trying to understand why rw access to /dev/dri/card0 for a 'guest' user would be a problem. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
