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Date:      Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:02:16 +0200
From:      Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl>
To:        gljennjohn@gmail.com, Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Jean-S=c3=a9bastien_P=c3=a9dron?= <dumbbell@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Testing the new i915 driver (rev. 3820047)
Message-ID:  <56237C38.5020906@rainbow-runner.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20151018084120.189ea061@ernst.home>
References:  <56224C70.8040906@FreeBSD.org> <fdf5c23433e7f58cf8b203e2551c370a@kapsi.fi> <20151018084120.189ea061@ernst.home>

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On 18/10/2015 08:41, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:05:25 +0300
> Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi> wrote:
>
>> I managed to work around this problem with the following command (as
>> root):
>> # chgrp wheel /dev/dri/*
>>
> You can more easily fix this by setting the owner, e.g. root:wheel,
> in /etc/devfs.conf.  You probably need an entry for each device
> which can appear under /dev/dri.  See devfs.conf(5).
>
I can't find the original problem, but in CURRENT the /dev/dri/* devices 
are given root:video permissions. This is still root:wheel on older 
FreeBSD versions. So the only thing you have to do is add the video 
group to your user.

# pw groupmod video -m jru

-Koop




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