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

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 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...

I would assume not: the whole point of DRI as opposed to the other
hw-accelaration implementations (utah-glx for instance) was to provide
"safe" access (that's why they have the DRI/DRM split etc) - you don't
need to be root. Xfree86 does, but that's a whole 'nother story.

They still use the kernel part (DRM). btw, there's more discussion on
the mesa-dev ML, and even on the linux-fbdev-devel ML (Linus mentioned
using the DRM side for fbdev too)

-- Mourad