OpenEuphoria

Re: Help with linux

• Posted by Thomas Jansen <thomasj866 at yahoo.com> May 21, 2005
• 439 views

Alexander Toresson wrote:
> 
> Thomas Jansen wrote:
> > 
> > I've downloaded eu_engin.zip by Bernie Ryan.
> > When i try to run the demo program as user i get this error: 
> > svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
> > I'm using knoppix 3.3 debian install.
> > The demo run as fine as root, if someone can give a clue to which file i
> > should set permisson.
> > Tj.
> > 
> 
>  From the svgalib FAQ:
> 
> 8. Why does a programs terminate immediatelly with "svgalib: Cannot get I/O
> permissions."?
> 
> 
> svgalib programs need to be run as root. This means that either the user that
> runs
> them is root, or, if running by normal users is desirable, the program needs
> to be
> 'suid root', which means: the program must be owned by root (chown 0 program)
> and the
> suid bit needs to be set (chmod u+s program).
> 
> Regards, Alexander Toresson
> 

Thanks to you and Bernie for take your time to help with this issue.
I still get the same error even when set permission to 777.

tj