Re: svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 12:49:32AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> This happens when a regular user runs a graphics program out of X - such
> as squake... How can I fix this?
>
> svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
You need to make your program setuid root (because svgalib wants access to
the video, keyboard and mouse, and only root can have this), so :
# chown root squake
# chmod 2755 squake
olive
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