Re: [Plplot-devel] linuxvga driver

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On Thursday 24 January 2002 22:45, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| > 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.
|
| For what it is worth, there might be a way to run and test this
| driver safely.  Apparently
| (http://packages.debian.org/testing/libs/svgalib1-libggi2.html) you
| can run a svgalib wrapper on top of libggi.  In turn this can be
| run (http://packages.debian.org/testing/libs/libggi2.html) on top
| of a lot of different backends.  If you choose to run libggi on top
| of X, there should be no root problem.

There is no point in using svga if you have X ;-).

I just reported this, I don't use it.

Joao