On Tuesday 04 October 2005 02:16, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > hjalmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No I am not running X as root. I can not get mplayer to work as a normal > > user but I have no problems with it when run as root. > > You do have a file permission problem. Unfortunately I don't remember > which file in /dev or /proc you need to chmod, even though I ran into > this same problem a year or two ago... Try asking in debian-users what > the device/proc files are for XV.
Start mplayer with 'strace mplayer 2> some_file' look at the file. You will probably be able to see where the permission problem is - it make take a bit to understand what strace is telling you. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
