From 91ee9033f17848fc9e25727bf56fe5099134fd2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amber Lin Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:10:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README to include new requirement Latest Thunk requires the user to belong to video group. Add this statement to README.md to notify external users on Github. Change-Id: Id9843abf09de5b63a3b7c3f7b322bc9099c6ff1a Signed-off-by: Amber Lin [ROCm/ROCR-Runtime commit: 8bc83e1e9bb251c4ad1bc887c1bda544760975f2] --- projects/rocr-runtime/README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/projects/rocr-runtime/README.md b/projects/rocr-runtime/README.md index 9b8f528abb..5ede88314e 100644 --- a/projects/rocr-runtime/README.md +++ b/projects/rocr-runtime/README.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ This repository includes the user-mode API interfaces used to interact with the ROCk driver. Currently supported agents include only the AMD/ATI Fiji family of discrete GPUs. +Starting at 1.7 release, ROCt uses drm render device. This requires the user to belong to video group. Add the user account to video group with "sudo usermod -a -G video _username_" command if the user if not part of video group yet. + #### ROCk Driver The ROCt library is not a standalone product and requires that you have the correct ROCk driver set installed. We recommend reading the full compatibility and installation details which are available in the ROCk github: