Re: [pygame] root privileges when running pygame

[Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

maybe you don't have permission?  What type of video card is it?  Not
a voodoo is it?

Sounds like your linux box is taking over the video display.  Which
requires root.

By default pygame/SDL usually tries going to window mode unless you
give it a full screen flag.  So maybe SDL can not do windowed things
in your setup?

Another possibility is you are running with eg svga sdl video driver.


On 6/9/05, Darrell Stitt <Darrell.Stitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting to run pygame but it says:
> pygame.error: Unable to open a console terminal
> 
> The source code is pretty simple:
> import pygame
> from time import sleep
> 
> d=pygame.display.set_mode((500,500))
> d.fill((255,255,0))
> pygame.display.update()
> 
> sleep(5)
> 
> ...
> when I run this I expect to see a yellow window. What I get is a
> fullscreen with yellow only if I run this sudo or as root.
> 
> Why doesn't it just create a window? Or how do I force it?
> 
> This is on my linux ppc. Using XP I get a yellow window.
> 
> I compiled Python, PyGame, Numeric, SDL, SDL_image, SDL_ttf from scratch
> with no customisations.
> 
> from what I've read SDL doesn't need root priv's to do any of this.
> 
> Darrell
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