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

What is DRM? Isn't it Digital Rights Management?  Would that be in OS
software?


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 05:58, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> 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
> 
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