From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QEO0e-0000wR-SQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:47:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50E881C126; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8FA1C126 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so966750ywl.40 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:45:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:user-agent; bh=ekkXM5JV6QWXdnOlhrvdzLWjGLwZMsZakUctX7NTujs=; b=FqcvhY/yQnkIW46XyUC640JWI7l9m4kJ38xrug5viPp3FCwpzi9rkuEl1CCRUV3NIM nSq/vyJUvEasCRv7EzLLwiQ7AizDtkimbIrljwxCWlKpnPFKktVebR6iYF4HD1VEtGpK EFm9Ds1iwSc7n789ZbIBlv+55in8NSIaFwkzY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent; b=bUrd7P2Rm0v0hkY9H/ikPpuhUinxGYt7+nTNviteSomBMPpZz29eGsgvGCxtgw7Z46 UYiM0jA2dhV2jdfs0Ie0EAn3lkLctb4Brk1XUcLv4/DKC2WOHNLOn+RE27kEkrq9bBgr LG/NaQTPJPS97y1g4P4p+eUc6F9hdCAvOfYN4= Received: by 10.236.146.104 with SMTP id q68mr3839180yhj.332.1303746343602; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari (adsl-152-84-26.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.84.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o63sm923544yhn.4.2011.04.25.08.45.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:45:38 -0400 From: Indi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions? Message-ID: <20110425164538.GA3044@gaurahari> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 306ab9f00f49e38664d15a07bfe17ed8 Greetings, My old thinkpad is showing its age lately, especially when using mplayer to play avi or mkv files. Fooling around with various options and config arguments has revealed that using the directfb for vo gives sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just like I always dreamed -- but only as root! Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere... My user is a member of all the appropriate groups (unless I've missed something?): [idd@gh~] $ id uid=501(indulekha) gid=501(indulekha) groups=501(indulekha),5(tty), 10(wheel),16(cron),17(console),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games), 104(crontab),994(vboxusers),998(plugdev) I've googled quite a bit about it and found a few users with the same problem but nowhere have I seen an answer. Is there a solution for this, or should I simply resign to watching videos as root? TIA! -- /\ /\ <\ /> ^ caveat utilitor 'v-v'