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Renan Birck

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Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 401

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[SOLVED] Intel driver: glxgears only works as root, otherwise segfault

EDIT: Solved this by adding myself to the 'video' group. Also downgraded driver to 2.7.1 and getting 1100+ FPS instead of the 400 I used to with 2.7.99.902

I installed Arch Linux again last night, now when I try to use 3D acelleration I get only segmentation fault unless running as root.

  (8) [renan@alliance:~] $ glxgears
Segmentation fault
  (9) [renan@alliance:~] $ sudo glxgears
[working normally]

I'm using an Intel i965 video chipset on a laptop Acer Aspire 7720, X is configured via HAL (i.e. no xorg.conf). This is latest Arch. Relevant packages:

  (14) [renan@alliance:~] $ pacman -Qf | grep xorg
xorg-apps 7.4-2
xorg-font-utils 7.4-2
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-2
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-2
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-2
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.2-3
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-4
xorg-res-utils 1.0.3-3
xorg-server 1.6.2-1
xorg-server-utils 7.4-6
xorg-twm 1.0.4-3
xorg-utils 7.4-4
xorg-xauth 1.0.3-1
xorg-xinit 1.1.1-1
xorg-xkb-utils 7.4-2

  (15) [renan@alliance:~] $ pacman -Qf | grep -i intel
intel-dri 7.5-1
xf86-video-intel 2.7.99.902-1

  (16) [renan@alliance:~] $ pacman -Qf | grep -i mesa
lib32-mesa 7.5-1
mesa 7.5-1

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Last edited by Renan Birck (2009-07-23 15:04:00)

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loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Intel driver: glxgears only works as root, otherwise segfault

What is the output of the groups command?  Are you in the video group for example?

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