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leniviy

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 177

[Solved] xf86-video-ati low fps under normal user, fine under root

Hi again. someone must had played HL1. So did I, but I had to run it under root to get the sufficient performance. I tried both OpenGL and DirectX drivers.
At 640x480 the FPS is ~5. At 1024x768 it's "1".

after some digging I found that glxinfo produces different output for me and for root:

# glxinfo
...
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

# sudo glxinfo
...
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL

How do I permit the normal user to utilize HW acceleration?

wine-1.1.26
xf86-video-ati 6.12.2
xorg-server 1.6.2

Last edited by leniviy (2009-08-01 11:14:16)

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Denacke

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Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 106

Re: [Solved] xf86-video-ati low fps under normal user, fine under root

Is your user added to the video group?

leniviy

Member

Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 177

Re: [Solved] xf86-video-ati low fps under normal user, fine under root

Denacke, thanks

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