The reason for it all is that using root login is kinda dangerous .. this can mess up badly. I want to use my own username on my machine. I dont play quake yet but i do have a few other 3dfx games i would like to play without logging in as root . I tried su to root and running the game that way but it always complains that root has no access to bman's x display (as well as with any X apps i run while logged in as bman and su 'd to root in a terminal) Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 I guess the main reason for the post was how can i rebuild this redhat specific src.rpm to use on my mandrake 6 system. >I believe that this has to be built into your kernel as a module, not sure >how to do it, but you will probably have to re-compile your kernel as part >of it. >I just SU to root, if you are the only one using your computer it's not a >big deal, if you want others to be able to use it without having root >access, well then you either have to set Linuxquake (which I assume is >what you are running?) or whatever suid root, or install the driver. > . > Jay Summet > >On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Brian wrote: > >> Can anyone help with this .. Using mandrake 6.0 .. i went to the linux >> games 3Dfx info page ( http://www.linuxgames.com/3dfx_info.shtml ) and >> >> installed the voodoo2 driver from there (RPM) works no prob .. although >> that only allows root to use the card. on the same page there is a >> device driver as well that allows regular users access to the 3d >> hardware.. although it is a src.rpm for redhat. How can i rebuild the >> source rpm on mandrake?? >> >> TIA >> >> Brian
