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Bug 4949

Summary: fbdev requires app to run as root
Product: SDL Reporter: Paul Cercueil <paul>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: sezeroz
Version: HG 1.2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: Patch to fix the issue

Description Paul Cercueil 2020-01-13 18:21:40 UTC 
Created attachment 4165 [details]
Patch to fix the issue

From the patch:

"The /dev/ttyX nodes obey the same rules as others, it's possible to use
them as non-root users provided that the access rights bits are
correctly set."
Comment 1 Ozkan Sezer 2020-09-22 02:11:53 UTC 
The patch is in. Thanks.
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/6428b7e83c2c