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."
quick fix and dangerous solution... chmod +s /path/to/mplayer
safer solution.. do it through sudo
man sudo for details.
|however, the normal user can use mplayer under X without any problem, using
|the SDL driver (" mplayer -fs -vo sdl").
I don't think mplayer uses the root window in X (for which you need
to be root)
that's why it works under X
Kingsly
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