On Wednesday 02 February 2005 18:44, Mauro Darida wrote: > hello debian people, > I am having trouble in making mplayer to run as user: it starts only > if I am root. I read the mplayer faq saying that the answer is to > make mplayer suid root, which I did: That's only the case for the DGA driver. Otherwise, the FAQ strongly recommends AGAINST running mplayer as root. Send us the output of mplayer -v /path/to/file/or/device for further info. -A