[SDL] SVGALib 2.0

Mattias Engdegård f91-men at nada.kth.se
Fri Jun 15 14:43:03 PDT 2001


(please don't send patches base64-encoded - keep them in ascii in the mail
body)

>Looking at 
>the earlier versions of SVGALib (including the latest stable one), I found 
>out that SVGALIB_VER wasn't defined until the 1.9.x series.  That's all this 
>patch does, so it isn't much of an improvement to the old one.

why not just do (pseudocode)

if(geteuid() == 0 || open(/dev/svga, O_RDWR) == 0) then yes, else no

? Because that's basically what you want to know




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