My problem is that glxinfo is reporting that Direct Rendering is disabled, even though I have the GLX and DRI extensions loaded and the XFree86.0.log file reports that DRI is enabled.

I also have the "DRI" section in my XF86Config file, that should let any user use DRI. The DRI section is as follows:

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection


Im running SuSE 8.2, which has automatically set me up as a member of the "video" group. Glxinfo reports Direct Rendering is enabled when i run the glxinfo command as root.

I just dont understand why DRI isnt being reported as enabled as a normal user.

Just to elaborate on the situation, i uploaded a screenshot which can be found here

It should be mode 0666 AFAIK

Ive got the mode currently set as 0666 in my XF86config file at the moment, but it was originally set at 0660 to limit DRI to the "video" group. I changed it to see if it would make any difference, but it didnt

I finally managed to solve the problem the other day, all i had to do was run the 'switch2xf86_glx' script to properly link the GL libraries together and such.

Right now Im booting up into init 3 and running the 'switch2xf86_glx' script before running 'startx'. Its a crappy work around but its finally allowed me to enjoy hardware accelerated graphics under linux, and the joys of linux gaming