well, if it's like Q1 (svgalib) was, it drops root permission too early. try using sudo instead.
-brad On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I have potato's XFree 3.3.6 with glx and Mesa from CVS. > > To be able to use full acceleration (direct rendering) a glx client has to be > started by (setuid) root, according to a README. > > When I run the Quake 3 Demo as root, everything's fine. When I'm a user it > just uses indirect rendereng, even though the permissions on the executable > (and the calling script) are 4750 (-rwsr-x---) and the user's in the assigned > group. > > Any suggestions? > > Christian > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
