Add notes about running things as root.

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Eric Anholt 2009-03-26 18:44:13 -07:00
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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.