Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 08:51:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >>> On 09/04/12 02:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I do understand that some will be more comfortable with the tighter permissions just on principle, but I'm trying to understand why rw >>>

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 08:51:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > > On 09/04/12 02:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > >> 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/d

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On 09/04/12 02:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> 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. > I'm not an expert hack

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On 09/04/12 02:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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 reliab

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 02:12:14AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 04/07/2012 05:13 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > The important stuff is the changes in xorg-config, changes in > > clutter (apart from the link), metacity, mutter, totem are really > > just minor rewording now that I understand the hw/s

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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,

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 08/04/2012 03:19, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:23:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> In mesa, I see three places that use card0. They are all of the form >>> fd = open("/dev/dri/card0", O_RDWR); >>> >>> I see in rules.d/50-udev-default.rules an entry >

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On 08/04/12 11:19, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:23:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> In mesa, I see three places that use card0. They are all of the form >>> fd = open("/dev/dri/card0", O_RDWR); >>> >>> I see in rules.d/50-udev-default.rules an entry >>> S

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-08 Thread DJ Lucas
On 04/07/2012 05:13 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > O > Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:49:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> Which device is that? /dev/dri/card0? I'd think the kernel/udev would >> create it at boot. I don't have an ATI graphics card to test, but I'm >> interested. I'

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:23:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> In mesa, I see three places that use card0. They are all of the form >> fd = open("/dev/dri/card0", O_RDWR); >> >> I see in rules.d/50-udev-default.rules an entry >> SUBSYSTEM=="drm", GROUP="video" >> >> The defau

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:49:38 +0100 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Note that I no longer need the chmod, the device and group appear > > to be created in Mesa. I suppose someone could add a udev rule, but > > then you would need to get that executed (e.g. by rebooting) before > > a r

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:23:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > In mesa, I see three places that use card0. They are all of the form > fd = open("/dev/dri/card0", O_RDWR); > > I see in rules.d/50-udev-default.rules an entry > SUBSYSTEM=="drm", GROUP="video" > > The default udev permissions is

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:49:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> Which device is that? /dev/dri/card0? I'd think the kernel/udev would >> create it at boot. I don't have an ATI graphics card to test, but I'm >> interested. I'll look at the source, but

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:27:41PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> It might be because it is a sect2 ? >>> >>> I'm not at the desktop at the moment, will try again later. >> id and xreflabel are "common" tags and are valid for any element. >> >> http://ww

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
O Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:49:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Which device is that? /dev/dri/card0? I'd think the kernel/udev would > create it at boot. I don't have an ATI graphics card to test, but I'm > interested. I'll look at the source, but I need to know what to

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:27:41PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > It might be because it is a sect2 ? > > > > I'm not at the desktop at the moment, will try again later. > > id and xreflabel are "common" tags and are valid for any element. > > http://www.docbook.org/tdg/e

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:29:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >>> Meanwhile, now that I've had to become a member of the video group >>> to get *hardware* accelerated rendering to work (years ago, the >>> 'chmod 0660' was enough for what was available). I t

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:35:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> I don't particularly like the way it has decided to use 'the section >>> called' >> That can be controlled with xreflabel: >> >> > It might be because it is a sect2 ? > > I'm not at t

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:29:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >> > > Meanwhile, now that I've had to become a member of the video group > > to get *hardware* accelerated rendering to work (years ago, the > > 'chmod 0660' was enough for what was available). I think the > > ins

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:35:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > I don't particularly like the way it has decided to use 'the section > > called' > > That can be controlled with xreflabel: > > > >-- Bruce It might be because it is a sect2 ? I'm not at the desktop

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > I don't particularly like the way it has decided to use 'the section called' That can be controlled with xreflabel: -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above informati

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:30:34AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> Ah yes, it didn't get transferred over to the single page. Will get on >>> it in a sec. >>> >>> -- DJ Lucas >> Actually, I wound up putting it on the server page. It really didn't >> read well on the configuration pa

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 06:57:15PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:44:49PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Meanwhile, now that I've had to become a member of the video group > > to get *hardware* accelerated rendering to work (years ago, the > > 'chmod 0660' was enough for what

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:44:49PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Meanwhile, now that I've had to become a member of the video group > to get *hardware* accelerated rendering to work (years ago, the > 'chmod 0660' was enough for what was available). I think the > instructions on membership of that gr

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:30:34AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > >> > > Ah yes, it didn't get transferred over to the single page. Will get on > > it in a sec. > > > > -- DJ Lucas > Actually, I wound up putting it on the server page. It really didn't > read well on the configuration page as it is requi

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-06 Thread DJ Lucas
On 04/06/2012 11:14 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 04/06/2012 07:43 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:37:24PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >>> Apologies if I missed a previous discussion, but I noticed the >>> x-setup.html page no longer exists (not linked). >>> I was specifically look

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-06 Thread DJ Lucas
On 04/06/2012 07:43 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:37:24PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >> Apologies if I missed a previous discussion, but I noticed the >> x-setup.html page no longer exists (not linked). >> I was specifically looking for the following instructions: >> >> cat>

Re: [blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:37:24PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > Apologies if I missed a previous discussion, but I noticed the > x-setup.html page no longer exists (not linked). > I was specifically looking for the following instructions: > > cat >> /etc/sysconfig/createfiles << "EOF" > /tmp/.I

[blfs-dev] What happened to the x-setup.html page?

2012-04-05 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
Apologies if I missed a previous discussion, but I noticed the x-setup.html page no longer exists (not linked). I was specifically looking for the following instructions: cat >> /etc/sysconfig/createfiles << "EOF" /tmp/.ICE-unix dir 1777 root root EOF I gather that this is still relevant since I'