I am running Debian woody/sid, and noticed that kghostview could not
display ps or pdf files (would produce error "Unknown device: x11"). I
thought this was odd, as certainly the gs package I am using has X11 support
(gs 6.51 from sid). I then noticed it worked fine if I was root. For some
reason, the devices available to gs are different dpending on whether I am
logged in as a user, or logged in as root, i.e.,
linuxbox:/# gs -h
GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28)
<snip>
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Available devices:
x11alpha bbox x11
and so on, but as a user,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gs -h
GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28)
<snip>
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Available devices:
bmpmono bmpgray
and so on, with only about 1/2 of the devices that showed up when the command
was run as root.
Is this supposed to be like this? Why would the devices available be
different? How do I give users access to the same gs devices as root? As it
is, the result is that Kghostview only works if you are root.
I am not sure if this is a Kghostview problem, a ghostscript problem, a
packaging problem, or just a configuration problem specific to my machine, so
apologize in advance if this isn't really the right group to ask this
question.
Bruce
