Re: [Dri-devel] Problem with DRI acceleration from non-root users.

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Daniel Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2000 06:48 pm, Brian Paul wrote:
> > Daniel Davis wrote:
> > > I have a problem with DRI on my system.  It runs perfectly with full
> > > acceleration when the executable (i.e. the opengl program I'm developing
> > > or a Loki game..) is run from inside a terminal window after I do an su.
> > >   If I don't su to root prior to running the program, I get no 3D
> > > acceleration. The program is obviously running in software rendering.
> > >
> > > I start X as a user (not root).  Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Have you checked the permissions in the DRI section of your XF86Config
> > file?
> >
> > For details, see http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html
> 
> The only line in the DRI section is
> 
>    Mode 0666
> 

Are you sure you're using the correct libGL.so (the XFree86/DRI one)
and not an old Mesa libGL.so?  I.e. check you LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
What does glxinfo report?

-Brian