help...why dont i have i/o permissions

[David \"the Rocker\" Rummel]

hi... i wrote a prog to try out the svgalib. it just contains a printf-function and then the vga_init() and the setmode(TEXT) functions just to test those functions. i compiled it "gcc -O3 -o test2 test2.c -lvga. when i try to run it now it says "SVGALib: Cannot get I/O Permissions". I looked around a little in the HOWTOs and found out that I can get root permissions for my prog when running the iopl(3); function before vga_init but that didnt change anything. can someone tell me what i do wrong.   thanx...david.   PS. Im running a SuSE 7.0