Re: [Plplot-devel] linuxvga driver

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

I cannot remember whether it was Maurice or Geoffrey who investigated this a
long time ago, but according to my memory of the results back then you
always need root in order to use this driver. Therefore, I have never run or
tested it.  If there is no way to get around this root-only limitation of
libsvga, I think this driver should be disabled in the interests of security.

Alan

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Joao Cardoso wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> 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:
>
> 	svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
>
> As root I can however use it.
> I make no ideia of what is going on. Any clues?
>
> Joao
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