System: PIII 733MHz 512MB RAM Video card Radeon 7500 AGP OS: Slackware Linux 10.2 X.org version 6.8.2 I noticed I have 3D hardware acceleration while beeing root and software acceleration as being a normal user. I searched in /dev/dri and found crw-rw--- root root /dev/dri/card0 If I chown root.users /dev/dri/card0 I have 3D hardware accel as normal user. If I chmod o+rw /dev/dri/card0 also. But this can be done after X has started (standalone with startx or login from init 4) becourse at every restart of X the permissions/owner/group of /dev/dri/card0 get reset to "crw-rw--- root root /dev/dri/card0" IMHO every user of the system should have 3D accel. Please look into it.
Since the DRI touches the hardware directly, it is limited to root by default. To allow all users, add the following section to your xorg.conf (feel free to adjust the mode as you see fit): Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection If that doesn't work it may be that your distro does dynamic permissions based on groups. Try adding yourself to the video or graphics group (or another similar gourp). Please re-open if you are still having problems.
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