Comment 53 for bug 1608180

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Matthias Apitz (gubu) wrote : Re: [Bug 1608180] Re: stellarium 0.14.3 on FreeBSD 11-CUR amd64 crashes on start

I've updated one of the Acer C720 to the most recent graphic work kernel
for FreeBSD from https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-base-graphics
which does allow to use the video-intel driver for Xorg. stellarium
still crashed with the same symptoms while getting the GUI up, until I
realized that the user must be in the group 'video' to have access to
the files below /dev/dri:

crw-rw---- 1 root video 0x6c 9 Apr. 12:57 card0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 0x6b 9 Apr. 12:57 controlD64

Adding the user to the group 'video' makes it finally work fine (also
flightgear works too).

On the other C720 system I still have to use the vesa driver for Xorg and
there are no files or dir /dev/dri. This would explain why stellarium
crashes there, but would not explain how it worked this way in the past.

 matthias