Re: glxgears segfaults as user, works as root

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glxgears segfaults as user, works as root
\ Iain Buchanan (27 Jan 2008)
. \ Strong Cypher (27 Jan 2008)
. . \ Iain Buchanan (28 Jan 2008)
. \ Mick (28 Jan 2008)
. . \ Mateusz Mierzwinski (28 Jan 2008)
. . \ Iain Buchanan (28 Jan 2008)

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Subject:	Re: glxgears segfaults as user, works as root
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Iain Buchanan
Date:	28 Jan 2008

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 08:16 +0000, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 27 January 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > on with my ati-drivers 8.452.1 woes!
> >
> > This time, glxgears & fgl_glxgears will segfault as root. FPS is bad
> > for GL stuff. When I run glxgears in sudo, it works!
> >
> > I've checked groups and permissions on /dev/dri/card0 and whatever I can
> > think of, but nothing jumps out at me. Google is not much help either.
> >
> > any hints? thanks!
>
> I had to unmask the x11-base/x11-drm-20070314 to get dri to work on my system
> (but I have an old ATI laptop card). The stable version would not even
> compile. You may have to try them all out in case there is a version that
> works.

I am running unstable anyway. remerging x11-drm didn't help... I
haven't tried other version yet.

thanks
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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29 printf ("Welcome to GNU Hell!\n");
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