Can use DRM only as root [SOLVED]

jannis · Last edited by jannis on Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:28 pm; edited 1 time in total

I used to run my system as root *shame on me*. Now I converted my confgfiles for a normal user and I got KDE running for a non-root user. I can acces all my games after I added me into the games-group. The problem is that my normal user doesn't have acces to the DRM-Interface of the X-Server. As root I can play Quake3 without any problem but when I try to run it as non-root-user I get these errors:

moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

Not 100% sure (NVidia user, so no DRM here), but you can either try to search for the two keywords xorg.conf and 666 (I seem to remember having seen something about DRM permissions in some xorg.conf files around here), or you can poke around /etc/security and/or /etc/pam.d. Look for the lines relating to DRM and change the device mode to 0666. Or both.

jannis · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your help but it didn't bring me any further.
My xorg.conf has nothing about DRM (It's just the module DRI) and both grep-commands returned nothing.

Eskarel · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

Dunno about ATI(I didn't have any problems back when I used them), but try adding yourself to the video group, it fixes an equivilant problem for nvidia.

jannis · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:57 pm Post subject:

The user I am logged in with is in the video group

askew2005 · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Underground

Add this to your xorg.conf
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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jannis · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject: Can use DRM only as root [SOLVED]

HIPHIP HURRA! IT FIXED IT!

Thanx!