On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:40 +0100, Steffen R. Knollmann wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:26:42PM +0530, Subhash Chandra wrote: > > I don't have X at all. So I can't have xv and x11. I know about that. > > I'm using mplayer for quite some time and I used to suid to root on > > redhat and lateron slackware. > > Okay. Well. Different approach then :-) > > > > The prob is with perms AFAIK. some how it can't open the fb0 device. > > Is there a way to see if I can check weather the user phoenix can open > > it? I thought of doing something like echo hi >>/dev/fb0 but afraid it > > might screw up something. > > You wrote somewhere else: > > crw--w---- 1 root video 29, 0 Nov 26 2005 /dev/fb0 > > Well, try to add read permission to /dev/fb0 for the video group. I > cannot check on my LFS box, but the SuSE-whatever thing I have access to > uses: > crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2005-03-19 23:01 /dev/fb0 > > That should rid you of the 'Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied' > thingie. I don't think it'll solve the 'Error occurred during pci scan' > ones, but perhaps it is not needed then. > > > Cheers, > Steffen > > -- > Finiturus eram, sed sunt diversa puellis > pectora; mille animos excipe mille modis. > -- Ovid, Artis amatoriae liber primus, 755-756 Hi, I'm new and halfway through my lfs install but... When I try mplayer in console mode i use this:
mplayer -quiet -vo caca [filename] Does that work for you? I think it looks fun! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
