Fah client 8.x on Gentoo linux

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Re: Fah client 8.x on Gentoo linux

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I don’t know what fakeroot is.
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Re: Fah client 8.x on Gentoo linux

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My root user has video group membership. I don't have one for render so I can add that and see if that helps. Right now my gpu shows good PPD but it looks like its running a little bit slow.
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Re: Fah client 8.x on Gentoo linux

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I read a little about the video and render groups. It seems that render might be a newer group with respect to what is used to run gpus so I added the root and regular user to that group. Fakeroot is a dependency that the READMEs suggest installing when installing the debian package. I think it lets any user run the client as root even though they are not. I thought maybe that would allow my regular user to run the client but that is not the case. I'll probably just run it through root. I don't have sudo or doas installed on this system but I log in as a regular user and then su to root.

My approach is not always entirely scientific. Sometimes I throw the kitchen sink at a problem and hope that it works. ; )
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Re: Fah client 8.x on Gentoo linux

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A google glance makes me think fakeroot is only used for building the Debian package.

https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot
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Re: Fah client 8.x on Gentoo linux

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I see.
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