From 6abc9b13f0b87f9af82d9b46ad84d74648b46a97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Anholt Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:44:13 -0700 Subject: Add notes about running things as root. --- README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 3f729276..9992d337 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ tools/ built with the 2D driver but not shipped. Some distros were hacking up the 2D build to ship them. Instead, here's a separate package for people debugging the driver. + +Note that most of these tools must be run as root. Several tools require +MMIO register access (which may be denied if CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is enabled). +When an X Server is running, benchmarks and tests clients won't be able to +run due to being unable to authenticate against it, unless you run them as +root. -- cgit v1.2.3