Alex Deucher wrote:
On 12/10/05, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
khaqq wrote:
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
Yes, it should be in the system's documentation. But it should also be
on the http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building page. It currently says
"To restrict DRI access to a certain group, do (after creating the
driusers group and adding users to it):" but should really say something
like:
To restrict DRI access to a certain group, find the name of the group
that is for video hardware access on your system. Have a look in
/etc/group. It might be called for example "video". Add the users you
want to access the video hardware to that group. Then add this to xorg.conf:
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
It's a wiki ;) feel free to add it. The thing is though, the udev
group and dev permissions really has nothing to do with the DRI. Not
all distros do it the same way. It makes sense to make note of that
as well.
No, see bottom of page: "Immutable page".
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