Re: (A bit OT) Quake 3 ignores setuid root

well, if it's like Q1 (svgalib) was, it drops root permission too early. try using sudo instead. -brad On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I have potato's XFree 3.3.6 with glx and Mesa from CVS. > > To be able to use full acceleration (direct rendering) a glx client has to be > st

(A bit OT) Quake 3 ignores setuid root

I have potato's XFree 3.3.6 with glx and Mesa from CVS. To be able to use full acceleration (direct rendering) a glx client has to be started by (setuid) root, according to a README. When I run the Quake 3 Demo as root, everything's fine. When I'm a user it just uses indirect rendereng, even thou