On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Curtis Shimamoto < sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did run into one problem though. I sometimes use mplayer from the > console. To do this, I have set mplayer up to use fbdev2. Previously > (when in all those groups), I was able to do this with no problem. but > after making these changes, I suddenly had to be root to use mplayer in > framebuffer mode. > > I realized that this was because /dev/fb0 was not included in the > 70-uaccess.rules. I am no expert in udev rules, but I have written a > few for various things. This file was dead simple to understand, so I > copied it over to /etc/udev/rules.d and added: > > # framebuffer > SUBSYSTEM=="graphics", KERNEL=="fb0", TAG+="uaccess" I think it is better to add a file /etc/udev/rules.d/71-my-uaccess.rules with just the line you need to add, instead of copying the whole 70-uaccess.rules file. That way you still get the upgrades to the standard file. Note that the names of the files make no difference, other than the order of execution. Regards -- Rodrigo