Like i told you ealrier ...change the owenership of the svgalibs from root
to the user( in this case You!).
chown <user> /usr/lib/libvga.so.1
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, St Xaviers College wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Slackware Linux 96 on my machine installed. My "svgalib"
> does not work, if not logged in as root. For instance to run "tmview" ---
> a dvi-previewer with linux/svgalib to preview .dvi files I have to open
> another session as a root, and while I try to run it otherwise it says :
> "svgalib : Cannot get I/O permissions."
>
> What need I do to run as any user ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Partha Pratim Ghosh
>
