Hi Theo,

thank you for your reply. Well then, I guess I just stop switching around between different login sessions ;)

Nils


Am 31.07.2020 um 16:08 schrieb Theo de Raadt:
I'm not sure what can be done about it.

/etc/fbtab's first role is to give access to subsystems, but it's
second more important role is to *take them away* later.

Unfortunately there is nothing "keeping state" about previous access
conditions, as well it is quite unclear if reverting to previous access
conditions would be a safe choice.


=?UTF-8?Q?Nils_Reu=c3=9fe?= <n.reu...@hxgn.net> wrote:

Dear all,

logging in and out changes the owner of the /dev/drm0 file, so that one
loses hardware acceleration in X when additionally logging in and out on
a console.  Here's what I do:

1) Boot Openbsd and log into X with xenodm.  Ownership of /dev/drm0:

      $ ls -l /dev/drm0
      crw-------  1 nils  wheel   87,   0 Jul 31 13:07 /dev/drm0

2) Switch to a console (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1) and log in with the same user.
   The file is now owned by my user-group:

      $ ls -l /dev/drm0
      crw-------  1 nils  nils   87,   0 Jul 31 13:07 /dev/drm0

3) Log out from the console.  Ownership changes back to root/wheel,
thereby disabling hardware acceleration in X:

      $ ls -l /dev/drm0
      crw-------  1 root  wheel   87,   0 Jul 31 13:07 /dev/drm0

To regain hardware acceleration, I have to manually chown the file back
to my userid, or relogin with xenodm.  So I guess logging in chowns the
file with my user (even with my user group when logging in via console),
and logging out reassigns the file owner to root.

I guess not much can be done about this, or can it?

Nils



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