Re: mplayer
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 02:16, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> hjalmar <bytor1@lsn.se> writes:
> > No I am not running X as root. I can not get mplayer to work as a normal
> > user but I have no problems with it when run as root.
>
> You do have a file permission problem. Unfortunately I don't remember
> which file in /dev or /proc you need to chmod, even though I ran into
> this same problem a year or two ago... Try asking in debian-users what
> the device/proc files are for XV.
Start mplayer with 'strace mplayer 2> some_file'
look at the file. You will probably be able to see where
the permission problem is - it make take a bit to understand
what strace is telling you.
Ed Tomlinson
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