Testing the new i915 driver (rev. 3820047)
Koop Mast
kwm at rainbow-runner.nl
Sun Oct 18 11:17:57 UTC 2015
On 18/10/2015 08:41, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:05:25 +0300
> Arto Pekkanen <isoa at kapsi.fi> wrote:
>
>> I managed to work around this problem with the following command (as
>> root):
>> # chgrp wheel /dev/dri/*
>>
> You can more easily fix this by setting the owner, e.g. root:wheel,
> in /etc/devfs.conf. You probably need an entry for each device
> which can appear under /dev/dri. See devfs.conf(5).
>
I can't find the original problem, but in CURRENT the /dev/dri/* devices
are given root:video permissions. This is still root:wheel on older
FreeBSD versions. So the only thing you have to do is add the video
group to your user.
# pw groupmod video -m jru
-Koop
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