Re: [Plplot-devel] linuxvga driver

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Well, I have never personally used that driver, but I think I still
know roughly what the issue is.  The issue is that taking over the
console and switching VT's requires privilege.  The X server enjoys
this privilege, which is why it can switch to VT 7 when you type
startx, for example.  The library that the vga driver calls, must
effectively do the same thing, so the invoking executable has to be
endowed with root privilege.  

Joao Cardoso writes:
 > On Thursday 24 January 2002 7:44 pm, Joao Cardoso wrote:
 > > I have commited changes to enable the linuxvga driver to be a dyndriver, as
 > > it was only partially configured (it appears only in
 > > PL_DYNAMIC_DRIVER_LIST).
 > >
 > > But I can't use the driver as anormal user, I get:
 >                                 ^
 > Neither as a normal nor as an anormal user :-S