acceleration only as root?

[mrt198]

Hi,

Have been upgrading to kernel 2.6.5 on debian (unstable), have installed drivers version 5336 and now only get 3d acceleration as root when running glxgear, tuxracer etc. Card is a geforce 2mx, 32MB ram, computer a athlon 1800 running on an ECS k7s5a motherboard w/ 512MB DDR ram.

Have checked the permissions on /dev/nvidia*, all set to 666, and have checked permissions on the libGL* in /usr/lib/tls, again all 777, so am totally confused as to what is wrong. ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears under both root and user gives
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1 (0x4002c000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40089000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40098000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x4015f000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x4016e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40191000)
libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libGLcore.so.1 (0x402cc000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0x40781000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

So I should be using the right libraries.

Any ideas?

Mark

[Thunderbird]

The nvidia opengl drivers need access to /dev/nvidia*. Likely non-root users don't have enough permissions to access them. I advise you to for example make a group nvidia and add users who need 3d acceleration to it.