From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Wed Sep 21 23:52:31 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A43BE47E9 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:52:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (unknown [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFFFA9E0 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:52:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from la-dgt-31327.usa.tribune.com (nat-192-187-90-117.nat.tribpub.com [192.187.90.117]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id df7323fd TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next To: Bob Willcox References: <1569231fc12.1189a20c2251388.8699372849515846410@nextbsd.org> <20160920162456.GO8480@rancor.immure.com> <439e20fa-6385-68fb-c97e-24705ebd2f94@nomadlogic.org> <157496f7268.ac5eb5ca278618.8741026532558973404@nextbsd.org> <20160920212545.GU8480@rancor.immure.com> <20160920221954.GV8480@rancor.immure.com> <20160921233610.GI845@rancor.immure.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <9582349b-cf1e-1d75-4784-a1d712aedac4@nomadlogic.org> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:52:30 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160921233610.GI845@rancor.immure.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:52:31 -0000 On 9/21/16 4:36 PM, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:19:54PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: >> >> Thanks Pete! I'll give that a try tonight. I think I'm beginning to get it. :) >> >> Bob >> > > 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: > 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. Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org nomadlogicLA