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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:38:29 +0200
From:      Igor Pokrovsky <igor.pokrovsky@cnrm.meteo.fr>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GL problems with
Message-ID:  <20030826083829.GC396@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1061886849.1183.25.camel@leguin>
References:  <20030824043218.00df0796.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> <20030825090247.GB538@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> <20030825151128.6a2fe1d7.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> <20030825152939.GA28560@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> <1061831627.640.1.camel@leguin> <20030826082642.GB396@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> <1061886849.1183.25.camel@leguin>

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:34:10AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 01:26, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:13:47AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > > > Check if bus mastering is enabled for this card. It was written somewhere in DRI
> > > > docs from X distro how to do this. Also try to recompile with default optimizations.
> > > > And check if you have latest kernel module for your card loaded.
> > > 
> > > Bus mastering is not an issue with the DRI these days.  It's enabled by
> > > XFree86.  The docs that talk about setting busmastering are ancient and
> > > really need to be thrown out.
> > 
> > Hmm, I didn't know that. Thanks for info. 
> > But don't you need to be root to change bus mastering behaviour?
> 
> XFree86 is setuid root or started by the setuid root Xwrapper-4, which
> is what lets it do all the rest of that fancy stuff with your video card
> :)

That make sense :-)
Thanks,

-ip

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