[gentoo-hardened] grSecurity warnings about XFree86; Xorg also targeted?

2007-12-24 Thread René Rhéaume
Some grSecurity features have a clear warning they break XFree86 (disable privileged IO, for example). Do those warnings apply to modular Xorg too, as they were not updated for the last three years? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-hardened] grSecurity warnings about XFree86; Xorg also targeted?

2007-12-24 Thread Christian Heim
On 24/12/07 20:15 -0500, Ren? Rh?aume wrote: > Some grSecurity features have a clear warning they break XFree86 > (disable privileged IO, for example). Do those warnings apply to > modular Xorg too, as they were not updated for the last three years? Well Xorg still is XFree86, just named differntl

Re: [gentoo-hardened] grSecurity warnings about XFree86; Xorg also targeted?

2007-12-24 Thread brant williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 So... yes. X needs direct (privileged) access to video hardware (and hence DRI). brant williams FCAA CDCA 20BC 3925 D634 F5C4 7420 6784 4DEB 6002 On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Christian Heim wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:53:25 + From: Chri