From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 30 17: 3: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D0A15352 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA16905; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:02:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:02:28 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: voodoo2 card not found Message-ID: <20000131020228.A16757@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Reply-To: K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl References: <20000131013743.A16660@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 11:13:23AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 31-Jan-00 Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > > test it complains that it cannot find the card: > > libglide2x.so expected Voodoo, none detected > > This can happen if you aren't root. > > The glide libs need to be root to open /dev/io to talk to the card. > Linux has /dev/3dfx which allows non-root access to the card. > Wow, thanks for such a quick answer :-). However, I tried as root. (When I don't, it will give me a 'Permission denied. Couldn't change I/O priveledge level.') Didn't know it was using /dev/io... (I was wondering :). /dev/io is sometimes used on my system for lmmon, monitoring fan speeds and such, but I don't have it permanently running. How does a program know what hardware to connect to via /dev/io ?? (Doing man io now) Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message