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Date:      Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:55:03 +0100
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade
Message-ID:  <20090429125503.GA88334@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20090429144318.1c0e0814.dcdowse@gmx.net>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:43:18PM +0200, Daniel C. Dowse wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:38:10 +0100
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:24:05AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> > > 
> > > Anton Shterenlikht writes:
> > > 
> > > >  > Section "DRI"
> > > >  > 	Mode		0666
> > > >  > EndSection
> > > >  
> > > >  what does this do?
> > > 
> > > 	Sets the permissions for some file.
> > 
> > which file? Is this something to do with allowing ordinary users
> > run X?
> > 
> 
> Hi, Anton,
> 
> it is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

yes, I got this from somebody's xorg.conf, but what does this do?
Is this a recommended setting? For what driver?

thank you
anton

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