Re: video permissions
This may help, but only if you are using a 3dfx card
http://www.netroedge.com/~phil/3dfx-howto.html
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>
> Nope, not really. The trouble is that the video hardware isn't accessed through a
> device. It's accessed using privileged system calls which allow direct communication
> to i/o ports. The system call which enables this can only be run as root.
>
> There's a lot of discussion about this topic in fact. The framebuffer device it
> appears will eventually make video a regular device.
>
> Jim wrote:
>
> > I just installed Quake and Quake2 on my Linux machine. They run fine in X
> > of course, and I can get the SVGALIB (console) versions to run ok too as
> > long as I run them as root or suid root.
> >
> > However, I'm wondering if there's some kinda of special device file that I
> > could just allow myself write permissions for, which would allow me to run
> > the game without root permissions? I'm looking for something similar in
> > concept to the "audio" group which can write to /dev/audio and /dev/dsp,
> > except something for video... like a /dev/video or something. I didn't
> > see anything in /dev/ that looks like it would do it though.
> >
> > Is it possible?
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