On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:36:09AM -0500, Anders Langworthy wrote: > According to radeon(4), my ATI Radeon Mobility 7500/M7 is supported by > the driver but as far as I can tell DRI is not loading properly when I > start X. X seems to work well enough besides 3D performance, which is > dreadful. An incriminating bit seems to be here: > > ... > (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10 > (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 > (II) RADEON(0): Legacy BIOS detected > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/drm0 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Operation not permitted)
Are you in the wheel group? See permissions of /dev/drm0

