[mythtv-users] SUID Root

Mario L superm1 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 13:38:37 UTC 2005


I was under the impression that compiling with opengl is only
supported for an nvidia series video card.  I am working under an ati
series video card.  Is this correct?  If not, then I'll be recompiling
later tonite :).


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:39:43 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:33:08PM -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't
> > seem to have much luck.
> > I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still
> > when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache
> > request and I still see it using usleep in the term:
> 
> suid root might get you real-time priority but it doesn't get you a
> better sync method (other than usleep). You should compile with OpenGL
> to get that.
> 
> Hamish
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> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org > <hamish at cloud.net.au >
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