From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Thu 27 Sep 2001 - 12:45:11 IST
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Aurobrata Ghosh msc math wrote: > Hello there, > I've found this promising lib, tucked away in the lib directory of my > school's network system (running red-hat linux), and have been itching > to use it. > I wrote a simple prog. using <vga.h>. It compiled fine as per the > instructions in the tutorial at www.svgalib.org. I then ran 'chmod u+s' > on the out file. But still I get the message: 'svgalib: Cannot get I/O > permissions.' What am supposed to do? > I've downloaded the source-code, and added ROOT_VC_SHORTCUT in the > 'Makefile' (but there are so many, in each directory, in which one am I > supposed to add that? In the /svgalib-1.4.3/Makefile or > /svgalib-1.4.3/src/Makefile?. I've done it in the former.). However it > cannon compile the source, because I don't have root rights, and > therefore can't write to the /usr/lib directory. You need root permissions in order to use svgalib. Root can allow other users to run svgalib programs (with the chmod u+s), but a user can't do it. -- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: To: listbot@svgalib.org Body: unsubscribe linux-svgalib
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