Re: [debian-x] DRI device permissions

[Gordon Heydon <gjheydon@bigfoot.com>]

Hello,

If you want to be able to access the dri by a normal user you need to
either create a dri group or open the premissions up to everybody with a
chmod -R 666 /dev/dri 

Gordon.

* Will Newton (will@misconception.org.uk) wrote:
> 
> Direct rendering is only working for root on my system (unstable/4.1.0). The 
> permissions for the DRI device files are:
> 
> /dev/dri:
> drwxrwx---    2 root     root         4096 Aug  1 15:22 dri
> 
> /dev/dri/*:
> crw-rw----    1 root     root      10,  63 Aug  1 15:22 card0
> 
> glxinfo as non-root:
> 
> will@dogfox:~$ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
> libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
> 
> Are my permissions incorrect?
> 
> 
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Gordon Heydon <gjheydon@bigfoot.com>