On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:54:35PM +1000, Colin Newell wrote:
> I read in the documentation that DirectFB programs running in single 
> mode need root access because of the need to access/control 'vt'.

Not root access, but access to some specific device nodes.

> Is it possible to run DirectFB programmings without requiring root access?

Yes.

> I tried "--dfb:no-vt"
> 
> this says not to use VT handling at all, but the program still seemed to 
> require root access.

no-vt does disable VT handling. You can for example run DFB programs
from an ssh session with it.

What is the exact error message you get?

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Ville Syrjälä
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