Not sure what video card you are using, but if it's a matrox you might want to switch from fbdev to mga in your freevo conf.
--Joe > 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 > > -- Joe Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.joestump.net "Label makers are proof God wants Sys Admins to be happy." ------------------------------------------------------- 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
