One other problem, it needs big warnings, anyone with access to the
device can crash the machine no problem...
Its vaguely possible that it could also allow more, however I've never
seen anyone mention such..
Zephaniah E. Hull..
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 09:04:18PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> device3dfx is a kernel module to allow user-space applications (quake
> :}) access to 3Dfx cards without needing to be run as root.
>
> This package consists *only* of a GPL'd kernel module. As such it can
> IMHO go into main. It could be argued that you can only use it via the
> Glide libraries, which aren't free at all, and it should therefore go
> into contrib. This point may need discussion.
>
> Notes:
>
> /dev/3dfx -- needs to be created. If this package is accepted, support
> for it should go into MAKEDEV, as opposed to doing a mknod in the
> postinst (which lintian complains about).
>
> The packaging is based on pcmcia-cs, and I hope it will work with
> make-kpkg in the same way. I don't use make-kpkg, so I haven't
> *really* checked, but "debian/rules kdist" seems to do the right
> thing.
>
> device3dfx, the source package, comes with one binary package,
> device3dfx-source. This consists of docs and
> /usr/src/device3dfx.tar.gz, which then extracts to
> /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/..., which seems right. It can be used to
> generate device3dfx-modules-* packages.
>
> SRH
> --
> Steve Haslam Debian GNU/Linux araqnid@debian.org
> gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-control-center, gdm, p3nfs. what, me worry?
--
PGP EA5198D1-Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@whitestar.soark.net>-GPG E65A7801
Keys available at http://whitestar.soark.net/~warp/public_keys.
CCs of replies from mailing lists are encouraged.
Attachment:
pgpWL2jWpwjiw.pgp
Description: PGP signature