[directfb-users] Re: Running without root privileges

[Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>]

Quoting Tony Houghton:
> In <20050112184903.GA18734@sci.fi>, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:36:18PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've worked out that the problem is because I've been trying to run
> > > MPlayer remotely over ssh, and it needs to be run from the console to
> > > get non-root access.
> > 
> > Use the no-vt option.
> 
> Yes, that works, thanks! I got an error about the keyboard the first
> time I tried though, and I had to add "noinput" to mplayer's -vo dfbmga
> option.
> 
> [no-]vt isn't in man directfbrc BTW.

Thanks for spotting! Volunteers? ;-)

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Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp
 
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