Re: voodoo trouble - sanity is at stake here.
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
look a the docs on dri.sf.net for more info
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don't do that, it'll crash the sys........ SHIT
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