Tigran.
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Krzysztof G. Baranowski wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > But, as I said, Alan is always right, so I am merely curious
> > as to what am I missing here.
> 3Dfx driver was written to allow safe access to 3Dfx boards
> by non-root users. The problem is that it doesn't play it's
> role well, because any user with access to /dev/3dfx can
> write to arbitrary PCI config space of the card -> look at
> doQueryUpdate(). In other words it gives you nothing over
> '+s' stuff.
>
> Kris
>
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