Testing the new i915 driver

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

On 23.10.2015 16:59, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> In FreeBSD 11-CURRENT, video devices (/dev/dri/*) now belong to
>> root:video (group ID 44) instead of root:wheel in previous releases.
>>
>> You need to add your user to the "video" group.
> 
> And it seems that the following in xorg.conf has no effect:
> 
> Section "DRI"
>     Mode 0666
> EndSection

I have no idea what this section is supposed to do. Isn't it something
from the pre-KMS era?

I would find it weird that a consumer, even if setuid, messes with the
permission of a device.

If the "video" group is not an option, it is still possible to use
/etc/devfs.conf.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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