Re: dri, permissions and creation
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:39:00PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Does anyone know when and how /dev/dri/card0 is created? And where the
> permissions are set? I tried searching on google, but couldn't find
> anything.
>
> The problem is that the dri/card0 is created with permissions root.root
> 0660, which means I can't access it as a normal user. Which creates
> problems, since I won't be able to get propert GL support with my Ati
> Radeon card.
On my system it says
joachim@debian:~$ ls -l /dev/dri/
insgesamt 0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 63 2004-04-09 12:30 card0
I guess it comes from the lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
# This loads the DRI module
Load "dri"
EndSection
# Makes DRI available to all users
Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection
>
> I changed the permissions manually to 0666, but I noticed that whenever
> I log out from X, the permission get reset to 0660.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> John L. Fjellstad
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>
HTH
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