I know this has been asked before, but there wasn't a satisfactory answer. Is it simply not possible to use DirectFB without root privileges? I ultimately want to use it with VDR, and I'd rather not run that as root.
I've just set up DirectFB 0.9.21 with a Matrox G450, using the HOWTO for reference. It works fine with MPlayer, but only as root. If I'm not root it gives a "KD_GRAPHICS failed" error. I looked at the source and saw that that error is generated when it tries to perform a KD_GRAPHICS ioctl on a /dev/tty* device (there is another place where it generates the same error in response to a SIGUSR2, but I changed the error messages to confirm it was the first one). I had already set appropriate permissions on the /dev/fusion and /dev/tty[0-9]* devices though. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
