  The maximal subgroups of the finite classical groups can be partitioned into
nine classes according to Aschbacher's theorem. We are concerned here with the
class $\mathcal{C}_6$ consisting of normalisers of extraspecial groups or of
two-groups of symplectic type. In "Constructing maximal subgroups of classical
groups", Holt and Roney-Dougal give explicit constructions for generators of
these subgroups. Namely, for $\mathrm{SL}(d, q)$, this is done by first
describing generators of the respective normalisers in $\mathrm{GL}(d, q)$ and
afterwards appropriately scaling them so that they lie in $\mathrm{SL}(d, q)$.
Effectively, this comes down to finding a $d$-th root of the determinants of
the generators in $\mathbb{F}_q$.
  In Proposition 9.5 of loc.cit., it is claimed that this can be done in almost
all cases with only a few exceptions, but no detailed explanation or analysis
is given why this is true or when exactly this is possible. This paper works
out the missing details by examining the relevant determinants and giving a
complete description of the cases in which they are $d$-th powers in
$\mathbb{F}_q$. Furthermore, it turns out that these determinants are actually
already $1$ in many cases so that one can omit the scaling entirely -
particularly for large $q$, this may save some time in practical computations.
