[MPlayer-users] -vo svga segmentation fault

[Ken Acmens]

Ken Acmens wrote:

>>> Hmm... Neomagic has had some problem in the past with the Xfree 
>>> server. If you have the money... i'd get a better card. A quick 
>>> glance around the web suggests that there are still problems with 
>>> neomagic cards and Xfree server... Might want to check for lastest 
>>> patches for the Xfree server.
>>>
>>
>> IIRC, Neomagic is a laptop video chipset, so I don't think 'replacing
>> the card' is an option.
>>
>> Rich
>>
> That's true.
>
> I did an experiment. 
> I logged in as a regular user and tried running mplayer -vo svga.  I'm 
> getting a different error now:
>
> svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
>
> If I run mplayer as root, it just crashes.  If I chmod u+s mplayer and 
> run as a regular user or root, mplayer just crashes.  If I don't chmod 
> u+s mplayer and run as a regular user, I get svgalib: Cannot get I/O 
> permissions.
>
> I think it may be a permissions problem.  Any ideas?
>
> Ken
>
I found the answer to the permissions question:
http://www.svgalib.org/svgalib.user.faq.html#q8

This doesn't help me with the segmentation fault when vo_svga.c calls 
vga_init(), though.