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I know Fred recommends not running it as root, but here's a way to do it as root.

You can use sudo. The launch script would look something like this "sudo loginname password /blah/megatune" Once you added your user name to the sudo users it will launch megatune as root. This tequniquie is also generally shunned because it leaves your root password in the open. If you don't do the password part, it will ask you for the password, which is a bit more secure.

If you can get the permission figured out, that's by far the better road to take, but I've found the permission to be a pain. Perhaps I'm just lazy, or ignorant, either way, sudo often lets me make it just work and get it going for now.

OK I have yet to try this out as i'm up in my office on an XP machine.
When i tried to run MT as root on the laptop I had free from work it didn't seem to like it much. after the firmware option screen comes the splash screen and then nothing.
this laptop has an astounding spec Toshiba Pentium 2 333Mhz 192MB RAM and its running suse 10.1 with Wine installed.
the laptop i tried iton and it worked is a AMD 64 3700 with 1GB RAM running Suse 10.2.

does this sound like a difference in operating system or lack of hardware resources?

Firstly, ignore Jared.

Secondly, if you want to run a X app (anything that has windows) as root you have to use sudo or a similar technique because it needs to be you running it to gain access to the xserver/client. Even though root is all powerful he will still not be authenticated and allowed to run an X app on your gui.

Thirdly, just fix the permissions :-)

The only one you should need is the serial device

If you've run it as root in your home dir then you'll have to chown all the files that it created back to be yours instead of roots. Running shit as root is a gay thing to do that WILL cause you headaches in the short and long term. Do it once and do it right. Fix the permissions.

Fred.

The question is Jared, would you consider MegaTune a "trusted program" ? Something running as root can and will bugger anything and everything if/when it goes wrong, even if it's by accident.

Anyway, as root :

chown -R dave:dave .wine/

Fred.

fred@rwdlsd:~$ ls -al /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 2008-09-17 07:55 /dev/ttyUSB0

adduser dave dialout

Fred.

Moved to appropriate location.