Re: Only one user has DRI

Jerome Glisse <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:51:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.dri.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Gaston wrote:
> My video card is an old AGP Powercolor Radeon 9250 (r200). Using
> the open source ATI Xorg drivers, I can get DRI to work for only
> the first user that logs in. This is shown by the result of
> running "glxinfo | grep 'direct rendering'", which outputs
> "direct rendering: Yes" but "No" for all subsequent users.
> 
> I need DRI so I can do fast user switching between two users
> using Compiz or playing and pausing a 3D game like Openarena. So
> logging off the first user isn't the ideal solution.
> 
> What do I need to do to enable DRI for all logged in users?
> 
> 

My guess would be that the driver does not closing properly on first
user exit. Does the Xorg log give any informations ?

Cheers,
Jerome Glisse

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