[MPlayer-users] how I let normal users use pci scan?

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

Hi,
I had build your rpms
you can try mine rpms for xorg-x11-6.9RC3 http://sergiomb.no-ip.org/xorg
from Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org>
I got this patch to compile svgalib_helper.ko under kernels 2.6.14 

Please cc me I almost lose this post !

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 22:06 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 03:57, The Wanderer wrote:
> > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > 
> > >On Sunday, 11 December 2005 at 18:28, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hi, 
> > >>
> > >>[savage_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
> > >>
> > >>How I give permission for a simple user use it ?
> > >>
> > >>I'd try 
> > >>chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/scanpci
> > >>chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/pcitweak
> > >>
> > >>and I could do scanpci as a normal user but MPlayer still saying
> > >>Operation not permitted
> > >
> > >VIDiX tries to access hardware directly. A normal user cannot do
> > >this, but you can use a special kernel module built from svgalib
> > >sources to let normal users use vidix. It's called svgalib_helper and
> > >it's described in the docs. However, use the latest version of
> > >svgalib instead of the one mentioned there, because the latest
> > >version supports kernel 2.6.x.
> > 
> > Where in the docs is this described?
> 
> file:///usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0pre8/en/video.html#vidix
> 
> > What version should be recommended,
> > and what (if anything) else should be said about it?
> 
> 1.9.23. It works fine on my system (2.6.14). I provided a patched
> svgalib_helper some time ago on mplayer-dev-eng, but I may simply post in
> on my site until MPHQ2 is up:
> http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/svgalib_helper-1.9.23-mplayer.tar.bz2
> 
> > It's better to update the documentation than to leave these things to
> > fall by the wayside - I didn't even realize that a particular version
> > was recommended, much less that there was a newer version available.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Regards,
> R.
> 
-- 
Sérgio M.B.
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