From: Eric Anholt Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:44:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Add notes about running things as root. X-Git-Tag: 1.0~31 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6abc9b13f0b87f9af82d9b46ad84d74648b46a97;p=profile%2Fextras%2Fintel-gpu-tools.git Add notes about running things as root. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 3f72927..9992d33 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.