Thanks for finding this.  The fix will be in the next beta.  The
workaround in the meantime is to telnet or ssh to localhost, since it
only uses svgalib if you're on a console.

-Mark Gordon

In article <3c3f0a80@news.povray.org>, "Jaime Vives Piqueres"
<jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
>   First, many thanks Mark! Your beta distribution tgz worked finely
>   here,
> and the first tests traced without any problem. But when I tried at
> night to let it rendering without X, from the console, I got the
> following error, even with -d in the command line:
> 
> svgalib: Configuration file 'etc/vga/vgalib.confing' not found. svgalib:
> Assuming Microsoft mouse.
> svgalib: Assuming low end SVGA/8514 monitor (35.5 KHz). svgalib: Cannot
> get I/O permissions.
> 
>   Let me know if I forgot to mention something or you want any more
>   info.
> 
> --
> Beta 9 running on AMD 1.2Ghz, 512MB RAM, Linux R.H.7.2, XFree 3.3.6.

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