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whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

No permission for hardware accelration

I have just run Arch Linux for 3 days now, and I'm already loving it. But there is one problem. I have no permission to use hardware accelration. Only root have that feature. In Gentoo I could just add my user to the group "video", but I can't find a group named "video".
So how can my user use hardware accelration?

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: No permission for hardware accelration

I'm confused... what is "hardware acceleration"? do you mean DRI? if you're talking about DRI and have an ATI card, you need to add the standard:

Section "dri"
   Mode 0666
EndSection

to your xorg.conf

also, arch should have a video group... have you done a "pacman -Syu" since you installed?

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whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: No permission for hardware accelration

I have use pacman -Syu

But I will try to add mode 066 to my xorg.conf.

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: No permission for hardware accelration

hmm dri may need to be in caps (DRI)... I don't have an ati card, so I'm not sure

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whargoul

Member

From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: No permission for hardware accelration

It worked.
Thanks for reply.

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