Quoting Sven Neumann:
> Hi,
>
> Roberto Ugoccioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a Matrox G450 and use mplayer plus directfb (with "-vo
> > dfbmga") to play movies on the TV attached to the second head of the
> > G450. I run mplayer from the console (linux is at runlevel 3, X11
> > is not started). matroxfb is compiled in the kernel (2.4.22)
> >
> > It works *very well* (having found the ideal set of options to give
> > mplayer) if I start mplayer from the command line, interactively. If
> > I put the same identical line in a script (so that I don't retype
> > all options every time) and run the script ("./script",
> > interactively, not in background), directfb says it cannot init the
> > keyboard and aborts.
>
> DirectFB applications need to run with root priviledges.
Please be more precise as this sentence stand alone will scare potential users.
The DirectFB master application (first DirectFB process)
needs to be setuid root for VT switching and raw keyboard input.
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