Re: GL performance decrease

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Wayne Dyer (dwdyer@austin.rr.com) said: 
> Before I do, lemme say that I added Mode 0666 to the DRI section, and
> now performance is greatly increased, but textures aren't right,  GLPlanet
> has an all-grey planet, and the gear screensaver (I forget which one it is
> by name) has semi-transparent gears.

Oh, you're running this as a user, and via startx (not xdm/gdm/kdm).
Yes, that will happen; you won't have the proper permissions to
access the DRI devices. Making the devices mode 666 can be problematic
if it's a multi-user box, however.

Bill