On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:22:43 +0100 Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Deucher wrote:
(...) > >your system probably uses udev to change permissions on devices on the > >fly. make sure your user is in the video group (or whatever group > >your distro uses for it). > > > Yes, that was the workaround! I added my normal username to the video > group and changed the part of xorg.conf to: > Section "dri" # from http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building > Group "video" # from http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building > Mode 0660 # from http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building > EndSection # from http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building > > But I still consider it a bug that I cannot use any groupname. At least > it must be a bug in the documentation at > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building to not say that I have to use > one particular groupname ("video"). This should be in your system's documentation. The "video" group is distribution-dependent and does not come from DRI/Mesa. Check the file /etc/group khaqq ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
