FW: [Dri-users] X only working as root...

[Alexander S. <Ale...@at...>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Lesh [mailto:cha...@ya...] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 21:48
To: Alexander Stohr
Subject: RE: [Dri-users] X only working as root...


Alex:

> "Group 0" means (system specific) possibly the root
> group. comment that line out with a # sign and you 
> are done.
> 
> -Alex.

Thanks for the quick response!

The problem ended up being that the new XFre86 binary
installed from the 'extras' package I downloaded from
dri.sourceforge.net was not 'suid root'. It took me a
while to figure that one out! 

I'm not sure if was supposed to know this or not, but
it's not in the install instructions, so maybe the
'extra' package has the permissions set wrong, or
maybe I did something wrong, or maybe this is a FAQ
that I was unaware of. 

I did this:
# chmod 4711 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

..and now everything works!

Thanks again,
Charlie

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