From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Wed Sep 21 23:58:37 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 DC6C1BE2122 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:58:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmacy@nextbsd.org) Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com (sender163-mail.zoho.com [74.201.84.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB725D70 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:58:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmacy@nextbsd.org) Received: from mail.zoho.com by mx.zohomail.com with SMTP id 1474502310060940.02348999944; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:58:30 -0700 From: Matthew Macy To: "Pete Wright" Cc: "Bob Willcox" , "" Message-ID: <1574f2fb8aa.e60df17234511.2445927962639207447@nextbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <9582349b-cf1e-1d75-4784-a1d712aedac4@nomadlogic.org> 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> <9582349b-cf1e-1d75-4784-a1d712aedac4@nomadlogic.org> Subject: Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: Medium User-Agent: Zoho Mail X-Mailer: Zoho Mail 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 23:58:38 -0000 ---- On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:52:30 -0700 Pete Wright wrote ---- > > > 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. > The "video" group is generally only needed for VAAPI / 3D acceleration. Xorg is usually built setuid so I'm not sure what else could be wrong. -M