Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)
Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Roberto
>> >
>> > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured
>> > web-browser, or read a pdf with diagrams without X.
>> >
>> Except that watching a DVD with 'mplayer -vo aa dvd://1' is quite the
>> console-based experience. Also, they don't make web browser much more
>> full featured that lynx. I'll grant you that diagrams in a PDF are a
>> bit tougher, though :-)
>>
> I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a
> serial console?
Yes, but don't expect to get any sound over a serial console. I suggest
watching it in an xterm on the same machine as the DVD player, make the
font size really small and the window area really large to get acceptable
resolution.
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