[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFD] Something...

[Daniel Egger]

Am Son, 2003-04-13 um 19.43 schrieb D Richard Felker III:

> But there's no radeon_vid kernel module...

Whatever you mean by "radeon_vid", there's a framebuffer module,
a X driver and a quite accelerated DRI module - all available in source.

> Also I was commenting about the ppc.

PowerBook *IS* ppc.

> Bench mplayer with -vo mga or -vo somthingvidix versus xine with xv.

I wish it was working...

> I'll cite again the root exploit that affects any suid program using
> DGA then dropping root. They were notified and to my knowledge never
> fixed it, though I haven't checked the latest sources. It takes
> incompetence to make such a horrible bug in the first place, though.

I don't know about this very bug but DGA is deprecated and never worked
well anyways, so it's quite understandable that they don't care much
about it. You seem to be pretty confident that mplayer for instance
is safe in this regard, I wouldn't if I were you.

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel
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