Hello, everyone. I recently managed to get Unreal Tournament installed on my machine via Loki's install scripts, but I find that it's only playable by root. When running under my normal user account, the graphics are horrible-- mostly vivid reds, blues, and greens.

A very nice and extremely patient e-mail correspondent has been helping me with this from the beginning, but now that the thing actually runs (after a fashion), I hate to keep bothering him with the same issue. His last suggestion was that the graphics were only correct under root because "probably [my] normal user account doesn't have permissions for the device."

Now I'm completely lost. I'm not even sure what further information to give, though it may or may not mean anything that I'm running Mandrake 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk; my graphics are handled by the Intel i810 chipset that came with the machine. Beyond that, I'll need someone to prompt me for further info-- in terms of understand how things work and what means what in Linux, graphics are probably my biggest weakness.

Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance.

Open up your favorite text editor.

edit /etc/X11/XF86Config or XF86Config-4

add these lines to the end:

That gives everyone permission to use 3d.

--Shade

Umm-- that's already there...

does it have hashes in front of it?
eg.
-----------------------------
#Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
#EndSection
-----------------------------

if so remove the hashes.

Nope, no hashes.

I'm stumped. You?

yip.

actually, have a look at /dev/dri*
there may be files that need to be chmod 0666

/dev/dri/card0 is the file that needs to be chmod 666 in my redhat system

Yeah that's what I thought, try that.

Didn't help.

Thanks anyway, guys.

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