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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DRM Permissions problems with fglrx driver
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:23:21
Message-Id: 200903291923.14976.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] DRM Permissions problems with fglrx driver by Andrew Syrewicze
1 On Sunday 29 March 2009, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
2 > Hello List,
3 >
4 > This is probably something really simple, but if you don't know, you
5 > just don't know. I tried looking around on the forums a bit and didn't
6 > find anything there either.
7 >
8 > I just finished installing the ATI-drivers package, and succesfully got
9 > X running with the ATI generated xorg.conf file. When i run glxgears as
10 > a standard user i get the following:
11 >
12 > ~ $ glxgears
13 > libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
14 > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
15 > 4642 frames in 5.1 seconds = 913.481 FPS
16 >
17 >
18 > but when i run glxgears as root, it runs fine with no complaints and FPS
19 > near 2000. I'm guessing it's system permissions somewhere, but i'm not
20 > sure where to look.
21 >
22 > BTW: my user account is part of the video group as well.
23 >
24 > Any help would be appreciated.
25 >
26 > Thanks!!
27 >
28 > --
29 > Andy
30
31 try rc-update add consolekit default

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Re: [gentoo-user] DRM Permissions problems with fglrx driver Andrew Syrewicze <asyrewicze@×××××.com>