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From: Andrew Syrewicze <asyrewicze@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DRM Permissions problems with fglrx driver
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:41:15
Message-Id: 1238334080.4333.1.camel@ANDOLAPTOP.andoweb.dyndns.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] DRM Permissions problems with fglrx driver by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 19:23 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Sunday 29 March 2009, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
3 > > Hello List,
4 > >
5 > > This is probably something really simple, but if you don't know, you
6 > > just don't know. I tried looking around on the forums a bit and didn't
7 > > find anything there either.
8 > >
9 > > I just finished installing the ATI-drivers package, and succesfully got
10 > > X running with the ATI generated xorg.conf file. When i run glxgears as
11 > > a standard user i get the following:
12 > >
13 > > ~ $ glxgears
14 > > libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
15 > > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
16 > > 4642 frames in 5.1 seconds = 913.481 FPS
17 > >
18 > >
19 > > but when i run glxgears as root, it runs fine with no complaints and FPS
20 > > near 2000. I'm guessing it's system permissions somewhere, but i'm not
21 > > sure where to look.
22 > >
23 > > BTW: my user account is part of the video group as well.
24 > >
25 > > Any help would be appreciated.
26 > >
27 > > Thanks!!
28 > >
29 > > --
30 > > Andy
31 >
32 > try rc-update add consolekit default
33 >
34 >
35
36 Thanks for the quick reply.
37
38 Adding consolekit to the default run level and rebooting the system did
39 not resolve the issue.

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Re: [gentoo-user] DRM Permissions problems with fglrx driver Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>