[MPlayer-users] SVGAlib warning (was rtc issues)

[Stephen Stocker]

  Just a note to any who may contemplate using the alpha version of
  svgalib. You may want to reconsider. 

  After a solid lockup caused by a graphics viewer (even with SysReq set
  up on my kernel), I ran a make uninstall, then tried to feed my
  standard svgalib back in from a backup CD. I then discovered that
  somehow, the uninstall had also managed to delete the ide-scsi module,
  along with my ham radio packet modules! 

  So, no CD from which to feed in a backup. Fortunately, I'm rather
  paranoid about such things and was able to reboot from a boot disk,
  then feed everything in from CD normally.

  But after 4 years of using a number of apps suid root (including
  MPlayer for nearly that long) with no problems, believe me, you're
  better off running with proven software. No conceivable attack from a
  hacker could have caused me so many problems, and as I say, I've never
  encountered such a thing. This isn't Windoze. :)

  OTOH, if you've got the development version(s) of svgalib working
  satisfactorily, there's no reason *not* to use it.

  Take care,
  Steve