Testing the new i915 driver (rev. 3820047)
Arto Pekkanen
isoa at kapsi.fi
Mon Oct 19 22:31:20 UTC 2015
Thank you both for these instructions.
I think I will use a devfs configuration file for now, and I can just
remove the conf file before I update to FreeBSD 11.
Koop Mast kirjoitti 18.10.2015 14:02:
> 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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