Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

[Manolis Kiagias]

Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:43:18PM +0200, Daniel C. Dowse wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:38:10 +0100
>> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:24:05AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Anton Shterenlikht writes:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>  > Section "DRI"
>>>>>  > 	Mode		0666
>>>>>  > EndSection
>>>>>  
>>>>>  what does this do?
>>>>>           
>>>> 	Sets the permissions for some file.
>>>>         
>>> which file? Is this something to do with allowing ordinary users
>>> run X?
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi, Anton,
>>
>> it is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>     
>
> yes, I got this from somebody's xorg.conf, but what does this do?
> Is this a recommended setting? For what driver?
>
> thank you
> anton
>   
Permits access to Direct Rendering for all users. For details see this:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting