Re: (A bit OT) Quake 3 ignores setuid root
well, if it's like Q1 (svgalib) was, it drops root permission too early.
try using sudo instead.
-brad
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> I have potato's XFree 3.3.6 with glx and Mesa from CVS.
>
> To be able to use full acceleration (direct rendering) a glx client has to be
> started by (setuid) root, according to a README.
>
> When I run the Quake 3 Demo as root, everything's fine. When I'm a user it
> just uses indirect rendereng, even though the permissions on the executable
> (and the calling script) are 4750 (-rwsr-x---) and the user's in the assigned
> group.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Christian
>
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