[PLUG] Running 'links -g'

[Jack Morgan]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 06:53:41AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I'm trying to use it in graphics mode, but I see this error message as
> soon as I press [Enter] on the command line:
> 
> svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
> 
>   On the laptop, svgalib is a directory, /usr/lib/svgalib, with 755
> permissions and owned by root.root. Does the error message mean that I need
> to setuid for this directory and its contents in order to run links?
 
IIRC, You need to run it as root but looks very nice with frambuffer.


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