This one time, at band camp, Mark Whaite said: > I am running into a few problems with X. As root I have find > preformance with open gl, glxinfo reports: > direct rendering: Yes > > as a user I get: > libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering > > I did a few searches on the internet (including this list) and found > references that I should look for a README.dri file somewhere in the > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/ directory. Since that file does not > seem to exist on my sarge install I am a bit on the bothered side. Any > input would be appreciated. > Mark Whaite
The last several lines of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 should be:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
That will enable non-root users to use DRI.
HTH,
Steve
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