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nightmorph 11/03/23 09:26:50 |
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Modified: dri-howto.xml |
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Log: |
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add note on the video group, bug 358287 |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.47 xml/htdocs/doc/en/dri-howto.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/dri-howto.xml?rev=1.47&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/dri-howto.xml?rev=1.47&content-type=text/plain |
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/dri-howto.xml?r1=1.46&r2=1.47 |
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Index: dri-howto.xml |
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=================================================================== |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/dri-howto.xml,v |
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retrieving revision 1.46 |
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retrieving revision 1.47 |
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diff -u -r1.46 -r1.47 |
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--- dri-howto.xml 2 Mar 2011 07:52:43 -0000 1.46 |
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+++ dri-howto.xml 23 Mar 2011 09:26:50 -0000 1.47 |
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/dri-howto.xml,v 1.46 2011/03/02 07:52:43 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/dri-howto.xml,v 1.47 2011/03/23 09:26:50 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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<guide> |
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<title>Hardware 3D Acceleration Guide</title> |
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
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<license/> |
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-<version>2</version> |
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-<date>2011-03-01</date> |
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+<version>3</version> |
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+<date>2011-03-23</date> |
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<chapter> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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</body> |
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</section> |
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+<section> |
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+<title>Add your user to the video group</title> |
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+<body> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Next, add your user(s) to the video group, as explained in the <uri |
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+link="/doc/en/handbook">handbook</uri>: |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<pre caption="Adding a user to the video group"> |
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+# <i>gpasswd -a username video</i> |
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+</pre> |
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+ |
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+</body> |
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+</section> |
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</chapter> |
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<chapter> |
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<title>Configure direct rendering</title> |
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<section id="configure_xorg"> |
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-<title>Configure Xorg.conf</title> |
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+<title>Configure Xorg</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-Open <path>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</path> with your favorite text editor and edit |
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-it to enable DRI and GLX. |
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+Hopefully just adding your user to the <c>video</c> group is sufficient to |
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+enable direct rendering. However, you may also need to create a file in |
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+<path>/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/</path>. You can name it anything you like; just make |
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+sure it ends in <path>.conf</path>. Open up your favorite text editor and create |
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+a file with this inside it: |
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</p> |
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-<pre caption="xorg.conf"> |
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-... |
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-Section "Module" |
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- Load "dri" |
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- Load "glx" |
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- ... |
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-EndSection |
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-... |
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+<pre caption="/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-dri.conf"> |
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Section "Device" |
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Driver "radeon" |
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<comment>(Replace radeon with the name of your driver.)</comment> |
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- ... |
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EndSection |
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-... |
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Section "dri" |
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Mode 0666 |
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EndSection |