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

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 04:58:30PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
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>  ---- On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:52:30 -0700 Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote ---- 
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>  > On 9/21/16 4:36 PM, Bob Willcox wrote: 
>  > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:19:54PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: 
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>  > >> Thanks Pete! I'll give that a try tonight. I think I'm beginning to get it. :) 
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>  > >> Bob 
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>  > > 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: 
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>  > 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. 
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> The "video" group is generally only needed for VAAPI / 3D acceleration. Xorg is usually built setuid so I'm not sure what else could be wrong.
> -M

Success! I uninstalled ALL packages and the rebuilt/installed them from the
cloned https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics -b xserver-next tree
and now X (and ctwm) are working!

Thanks, folks, for all the help!

Bob

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