Hi, I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to latest for Red Hat 7.2, called 2.4.18-18.7.x. I then tried to reinstall DRI from the latest dripkg (dated 12/4/2002). The laptop has a Mach64 Rage Mobility graphics chip. After all these upgrades, I can no longer get hardware acceleration. The error message in the XFree86 log is:
[drm] drmSetBusid failed (7, PCI:1:0:0), Permission denied I checked out where this was generated from and found that the ioctl() function in the DRM module was failing on the capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) call. (drmSetBusid() calls the SET_UNIQUE ioctl which is considered a priviledged operation.) Basically, the capable() function just examines the cap_effective field in the kernel's current task structure to see if the given bit is set. I added a printk to the DRM module to see what the value of the cap_effective field is. In the previous RH release kernel (2.4.9-34), cap_effective is 0xfffffeff (which seems reasonable for a root owned process and does in fact include the CAP_SYS_ADMIN bit). However, in kernel 2.4.18-18.7.x, in the drm module (mach64.o in this case), cap_effective is just 0, so none of the capable() checks in the DRM module succeed. What should I do next? Report it to RH? Compile my own kernel? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Allen ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
