Re: [Fresco-devel] openGL hw-acceleration without X...

Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:25:36 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.fresco.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
[...]
> It seems there finally is some momentum to isolate the DRI drivers from 
> Xfree86. (There's a lot of recent discussion on dri-devel about this: 
> check http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dri-devel&w=2&r=1&s=embedded&q=b 
> for instance). "The future of Xfree86" also spawned alot of "future of 
> DRI"-type questions, so it seems the architecture will get in place 
> sooner than we expected.

Will apps that want to use "Embedded Mesa" require root privileges?
I'm guessing yes, from what I know about DRI, but this is an important
thing to know...

-- Nathaniel

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