gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Pete Wright]

On 9/21/16 4:36 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:19:54PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Pete! I'll give that a try tonight. I think I'm beginning to get it. :)
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> Well, partial success. X will come up if I run as root but not as
> my user id. I suspect that I have some ports problems. I had installed
> a number of ports prior to trying the drm-next stuff so that could be
> the problem. Here's my Xorg.log file, in case that helps. Here's one
> of the log lines that seemed pretty troublesome:
>

re: the requirement to run as root, ensure your login is part of the 
"video" group.  That should allow you to access /dev/drm/ w/o elevated 
privs.

Cheers,
-pete


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