[MPlayer-users] rtc question; conf problems solved

[Stephen Stocker]

>On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 06:44:44PM -0500, Stephen Stocker wrote:
>[ quoting somebody with no attribution-- tsk tsk ]
>>>No! That's a Bad Idea(tm). You should never run MPlayer as root.
>>Uh, how else would one go about using it with svgalib?
>
>By using 1.9.x with the svgalib_helper kernel module.
>
>http://www.arava.co.il/matan/svgalib/
>--
>Matthew W. Miller <mwmiller at columbus.rr.com>      MPlayer does not suck.

  Thanks. I just grabbed that awhile back, but something or other I'd
  read led me to believe that it was for the Vidix drivers.

  It'd be nice to not have to remember to change permissions on it
  everytime I install it, if nothing else! :)

  Steve