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 1QEiRC-0004SA-8Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:36:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF1C21C02B; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26D31C02B for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so294746gxk.40 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:34:14 -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 :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=yIcrN6vmZZ6n05Azv6bbjueBh7aUfTgDtGsEW9s/Da4=; b=Cp5vpN4JZrdvNmcjcmlRFYUl7MsFFThdElghImB5reuOD6A0z+Y/tUVlExBAW/L0aC V1xDpvJz4ZAsv9mFa6ghHltosR5tQ3m2NrH9HG2Kge+aaq55wkxlQEL5BbqCpMGQqNDR f+92SWLQjftUkL1eVlVaCjgBrU0QAYozxaSwY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=uFX27IQ7relBeXY6ez8QW5B08XR/AWmEz1L8tQLu++ZDEbQ34L+ck1cfgNqYp0MYeH myrU+vyvv19Mfqcj31ZjeB3RiSPOvAOTXbnfVWHZyJ6/3+xUr4F7QL0JTzo5wzL2fWrQ 4VfyDb2xR3DAUW9hK4zvqHkyFqSO3lgSlmHew= Received: by 10.236.184.199 with SMTP id s47mr892712yhm.356.1303824854098; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari (adsl-152-84-26.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.84.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 41sm2673298yha.64.2011.04.26.06.34.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:34:05 -0400 From: Indi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions? Message-ID: <20110426133404.GA7426@gaurahari> References: 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 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 163de167e50c4b2d7cb37bb1d0a00e6e On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:30:02AM +0200, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 23:38:04 Indi wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Indi wrote: > > > ...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... > > > > Oh jeepers, I've made a silly error -- the reason videos were playing so > > well as root is that root had no .mplayer/config, :) > > Apparently I just needed to clean up my config file and now it works > > just fine again with x11 driver. Didn't realize defining a couple of audio > > and video filters would impact performance that much but apparently it > > really does, at least with avi and mkv files. Sorry for the noise! > > > > For other reasons though it might still be nice to know how to give a > > user directfb permission. > > > > :) > > Just an idea. > > Not sure if it uses svgalib - in which case setuid it to root before you fire > it up as a plain user. > > Alternatively, run strace as a plain user and see at what point it fails to > access the files it needs. > -- > Regards, > Mick Thanks for the suggestions. Was going to look into that just now but after updating the system (and runing revdep-rebuild and python updater and --depclean) the directfb driver doesn't display properly anymore for some reason. Everything else seems fine, and videos are playing in sync with the x11 driver and all that. I have a feeling from what Ive read STFW that this is going to come down to my ATI Mobility 9600 chipset's incomplete kernel support and may not be practically solvable to the point of being worth pursuing. I may pursue it anyway at some point in the future but for right now it's been moved to the back burner for a bit. -- /\ /\ <\ /> ^ caveat utilitor 'v-v'