On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Bill Adams wrote:
>
> When I try to start xmame.svga from an xterm as a normal user, it gives me
> some error messages:
>
> evil:~$ /usr/games/xmame.svgalib
> You must be the owner of the current console to use svgalib.
> Not running in a graphics capable console,
> and unable to find one.
> Linux Joystick interface initialization...
> Couldn't open joystick device /dev/js0
> Be sure to joystick module is instaled
> Linux Sound Driver initialization...
> Audio device /dev/dsp set to 8bit linear mono 11025Hz
> Mouse/Trakball selected.
> svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
> evil:~$ ls -l /usr/games/xmame.svgalib
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2883832 May 31 16:14
> /usr/games/xmame.svgalib
> evil:~$
>
> I have libvga.so.1.2.13. Any sugestions?
yeah, svgalib and X are mutually exclusive. You can't run svgalib stuff
under X :)
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