Re: Does X11 user need permission to /dev/dri/card0

2023-01-03 Thread Michael van Elst
mayur...@acm.org (Mayuresh) writes: >What do I miss if I don't give dri permission? E.g. would firefox be >terribly slower? It is slower, and much slower for anything using video content or things like WebGL. >I can already see that I can't even run xscreensaver-demo. I can >understand performa

Re: Does X11 user need permission to /dev/dri/card0

2023-01-03 Thread Mayuresh
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 06:30:05AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > If the system crashes when you allow access, this means that > the DRM code is buggy Thanks. Logged a PR already. What do I miss if I don't give dri permission? E.g. would firefox be terribly slower? I can already see that I

Re: 10.0 BETA : Status of Wireless N

2023-01-03 Thread Mayuresh
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 06:23:48AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > Merging the FreeBSD wifi subsystem that supports 802.11n is work in > progress and is developed on a separate branch. Ok. Thank you for the information. > The Broadcom "full mac" chips (e.g. used by RaspberryPi) run most of > the

Re: Does X11 user need permission to /dev/dri/card0

2023-01-03 Thread Michael van Elst
mayur...@acm.org (Mayuresh) writes: >Can someone throw some light on whether wheel membership is mandatory for >dri? And about the crash if such permission is given? It's the opposite, the DRI device needs to be accessible to users that should be allowed to use it. You could create a 'drm' group

Re: 10.0 BETA : Status of Wireless N

2023-01-03 Thread Michael van Elst
mayur...@acm.org (Mayuresh) writes: >On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 07:35:56PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: >> Is N supported on 10.0 BETA? Is some configuration required to enable the >> same? >Which component decides this - firmware? driver? kernel? something else? All of them. >Is Wireless N generally n

daily CVS update output

2023-01-03 Thread NetBSD source update
Updating src tree: P src/external/gpl3/binutils/usr.bin/c++filt/Makefile P src/libexec/ld.elf_so/expand.c P src/libexec/ld.elf_so/headers.c P src/sys/dev/pci/virtio.c P src/sys/net/pfkeyv2.h P src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/op_colon.c P src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/tree.c P src/usr.sbin/sysinst/net.c

Re: 10.0 BETA : Status of Wireless N

2023-01-03 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 07:35:56PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > Is N supported on 10.0 BETA? Is some configuration required to enable the > same? Which component decides this - firmware? driver? kernel? something else? 10.0 BETA seems to have up to date firmware in the right place, though I didn't no