Cannot start xgl as user

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cessman4life · Post by **cessman4life** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:20 am

I'm able to start xgl as root by invoking "./startxgl 1 gnome". For some reason I'm only able to run xgl as root. How would I run xgl as user?

nlindblad · Post by **nlindblad** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:09 pm

cessman4life wrote:I'm able to start xgl as root by invoking "./startxgl 1 gnome". For some reason I'm only able to run xgl as root. How would I run xgl as user?

Make sure the user is in the video group.

The Gentoo Handbook wrote:Video - be able to access video capturing hardware and doing hardware acceleration

cessman4life · Post by **cessman4life** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:42 am

I wish it were that easy. User was always a part of the video group

localhost ~ # id clirico
uid=1000(clirico) gid=1000(clirico) groups=1000(clirico),10(wheel),11(floppy),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),407(games),410(vmware)

Any other suggestions?

nlindblad · Post by **nlindblad** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:34 pm

cessman4life wrote:Any other suggestions?

Of course, you could use an utility like strace to check exactly what device files and system files XGL tries to work with. (It shows you exactly what system calls a program makes and how it interacts with the kernel, lovely tool really).

But be aware that the output might be a bit weird for you if you haven't worked with debugging before. And speaking of debugging, it could be a good idea to re-compile XGL with debugging enabled (if you have the time that is).

And last but not the least, have you checked Gentoo's Bugzilla

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