Re: GL performance decrease

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> 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

Do I understand this correctly? The default is for DRI to work only for
root?
How can I fix it so that QuakeIII works with my Voodoo3?

Chris Kloiber