Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

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 17:49:33
Message-Id: 200903291949.13278.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] DRM Permissions problems with fglrx driver by Andrew Syrewicze
1 On Sunday 29 March 2009, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 19:23 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 29 March 2009, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
4 > > > Hello List,
5 > > >
6 > > > This is probably something really simple, but if you don't know, you
7 > > > just don't know. I tried looking around on the forums a bit and didn't
8 > > > find anything there either.
9 > > >
10 > > > I just finished installing the ATI-drivers package, and succesfully got
11 > > > X running with the ATI generated xorg.conf file. When i run glxgears as
12 > > > a standard user i get the following:
13 > > >
14 > > > ~ $ glxgears
15 > > > libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
16 > > > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
17 > > > 4642 frames in 5.1 seconds = 913.481 FPS
18 > > >
19 > > >
20 > > > but when i run glxgears as root, it runs fine with no complaints and
21 > > > FPS near 2000. I'm guessing it's system permissions somewhere, but i'm
22 > > > not sure where to look.
23 > > >
24 > > > BTW: my user account is part of the video group as well.
25 > > >
26 > > > Any help would be appreciated.
27 > > >
28 > > > Thanks!!
29 > > >
30 > > > --
31 > > > Andy
32 > >
33 > > try rc-update add consolekit default
34 >
35 > Thanks for the quick reply.
36 >
37 > Adding consolekit to the default run level and rebooting the system did
38 > not resolve the issue.
39
40 try chaning permissions in /dev/dri/card0