Nope, not really. The trouble is that the video hardware isn't accessed through a device. It's accessed using privileged system calls which allow direct communication to i/o ports. The system call which enables this can only be run as root.
There's a lot of discussion about this topic in fact. The framebuffer device it appears will eventually make video a regular device. Jim wrote: > I just installed Quake and Quake2 on my Linux machine. They run fine in X > of course, and I can get the SVGALIB (console) versions to run ok too as > long as I run them as root or suid root. > > However, I'm wondering if there's some kinda of special device file that I > could just allow myself write permissions for, which would allow me to run > the game without root permissions? I'm looking for something similar in > concept to the "audio" group which can write to /dev/audio and /dev/dsp, > except something for video... like a /dev/video or something. I didn't > see anything in /dev/ that looks like it would do it though. > > Is it possible? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
