Re: voodoo trouble - sanity is at stake here.
begin: Alson van der Meulen <alson@linuxfreak.nl> quote
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:40:21AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > hey all,
> >
> > my girlfriend asked me to fix something on her computer, and i'm at a loss...
> >
> > she has a voodoo3 / woody / X 4.0
> >
> > hardware acceleration is obviously working for root (gears looks great, and
> > independent of window size; quake3 looks great). it's obviously NOT working
> > for non-root users (gears is sloooow. quake3 is painful).
> >
> >
> > when X boots (even as non-root), everything looks nice and healthy. i get the
> > "DRI enabled" message. yet, it's obvious that something isn't going right
> > for non-root users.
> >
> > i'm at a loss here. X looks good. voodoo is good under root. you don't
> > need a kernel module for non-root acces of the X4 voodoo boards. i don't
> > think anything needs to be setuid.
> have something like this in your xf86config:
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
perfect, thank you.
> look a the docs on dri.sf.net for more info
definitely a good site to spend some time at. thanks for the link!
pete
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