Using the instructions from the Freevo web site, I installed Freevo 1.4 and the Freevo runtime under a non-root user on my Debian Woody machine.
Under X (freevo.conf: display=x11), while logged in as the non-root user, freevo comes up fine. Using the framebuffer (freevo.conf: display=fbdev), however, I get the following exception when trying to execute freevo as the non-root user: ... File ".../freevo/freevo-1.4/src/osd.py", line 405, in __init__ pygame.display.init() pygame.error: No available video device Thinking this was because of some permission problem trying to access the framebuffer device, I added the non-root user to the video group (which is the group assigned to the /dev/fb* entries). No change. Then, I noticed that the video group did not have read permission on the /dev/fb* entries, so I added those. I was still unable to get freevo to work, but I got a little bit different exception: ... File ".../freevo/freevo-1.4/src/osd.py", line 405, in __init__ pygame.display.init() pygame.error: No I/O port permissions At this point, I had no idea where to look next (I actually looked at the SDL source code for the initialize function involved, but didn't have time to really study it). So, I tried executing freevo as root. This worked, but the screen looked awful (like it was not enough color depth or something). Thus, I have two questions: 1. Why, using fbdev, can't I run freevo as a non-root user? 2. Why, using fbdev, does the screen look so rough? Brad ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
