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> So you're saying it works with an image viewer, and not a > movie viewer? You never said anything like that in your > initial post. Maybe you should fully describe what you > are doing and the problem you're seeing. I didn't imply anything in my first post. And it's just as I stated in my second post: > >>svgalib no doubt requires the ability to access direct > >>hardware or somesuch to draw graphics on a tty, and only > >>then a VGA one (serial terminal won't work). There's no > >>way that screen could handle that situation. At that > >>point you want remote X Windows. > >> > > > >Which svgalib does do, writing to my real (unused) tty > >console #3 when I'm in a screen -- this is all local, btw -- > >and I want to look at some jpegs, etc. (there are still > >issues when I happen to be in another terminal somewhere > >else when svgalib wants to show me that pic, after loading > >it). > > > >What I'm really asking here, I guess, is: what's stopping me > >from using e.g. mplayer -- with svgalib -- the same way, > >from any screen, but to show me a movie? mplayer actually > >starts to write to terminal #3 (then it tried #4 the next > >time?!), but bails out with the error: > > > > ioctl(VT_WAITACTIVE): Operation not permitted > > > > > >There's some vt/screen skullduggery going on here... An ioctl() error is also what I got before I set mplayer setuid. What ioctl(VT_WAITACTIVE) means here I do not know. - -- grok. - -- *** SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM ? *************************************** * Capitalism wraps itself in flags of convenience * Critical * * The latest one is religious obscurantism * Support only * ************ STEM THE ASSAULT ON MATERIALIST SCIENCE ************ * http://www.darwin.ws Darwin World Site **** A Child's Primer of * * http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/day240805.html Intelligent Design* * http://www.talkorigins.org Talk.Origins Archive * * http://humanisteducation.com Continuum of Humanist Education * * http://www.secularstudents.org Secular Student Alliance * * http://www.darwinday.org Darwin Day Celebration * ***** "HUMAN RIGHTS" IMPERIALISM: NEW FACE OF OLD EXPLOITATION ***** GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEszVfXo3EtEYbt3ERAgIdAKC75nGxi590lx4ScXVWy0TtEJZuGgCgk6GF MgyBZYxiqyAnnwllBJMbCKA= =l1hD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
