Help with building gdb with BDM support for the Coldfire

Hi all -

   I'm trying to build gdb with bdm support for the Coldfire.  I'm not a
linux power user, but know enough to muddle my way through things.  I'm
using Fedora 8 (linux 2.6.24).

  I configured gdb 6.7 (--target=m68k-bdm-elf) and gdb seems to work.

  I then followed the README file in m68k-bdm-1.4-pre2 from sourceforge.  It
took a while to get the ioperm working, but it is working so far (I can
connect to my custom target board at least).

  But it will only work if I run m68k-bdm-elf-gdb as root.  This is how I
start:

[root@localhost bin]# ./m68k-bdm-elf-gdb
GNU gdb 6.7
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=m68k-bdm-elf".

(gdb) target remote | m68k-bdm-gdbserver pipe /dev/bdmcf0
Remote debugging using | m68k-bdm-gdbserver pipe /dev/bdmcf0
m68k-bdm: architecture 68000 connected to /dev/bdmcf0
m68k-bdm: Coldfire debug module version is 1 (5307/5407(e))
Process /dev/bdmcf0 created; pid = 0
0xb6eb7912 in ?? ()
(gdb)

And this is what I get if I try to use it from my regular account:
[pcmadm@localhost bin]$ ./m68k-bdm-elf-gdb
GNU gdb 6.7
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=m68k-bdm-elf".

(gdb) target remote | m68k-bdm-gdbserver pipe /dev/bdmcf0
Remote debugging using | m68k-bdm-gdbserver pipe /dev/bdmcf0
trying kernel driver: /dev/bdmcf0
trying bdm server: localhost:/dev/bdmcf0
Ignoring packet error, continuing...
warning: unrecognized item "timeout" in "qSupported" response
m68k-bdm: error: No such device or address
m68k-bdm-gdbserver: Exiting
Remote communication error: Resource temporarily unavailable.
(gdb)

What do I have to change so I can run this from my regular user account?

Thanks in advance.
Mark