On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tathagata Banerjee wrote:
> i can play mpeg files without starting X, using the "-vo svga" option in
> mplayer. but i can do this only as root.
>
> if a normal user tries to do this, mplayer aborts, saying:
> "svgalib: cannot get I/O permissions."
>
> however, the normal user can use mplayer under X without any problem, using
> the SDL driver (" mplayer -fs -vo sdl").
>
> what can i do to correct this?
The easiest way is to make mplayer setuid root.
-Naren
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