On 08/24/2012 06:56 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > I have had no success whatsoever getting DirectFB to run under F17 as a regular user on my HP laptop. > > # yum list DirectFB > > Installed Packages > directfb.x86_64 1.5.3-7.fc17 > @updates > > > I have discussed the problems on the DirectFB mailing list and they direct me back to the distro. > > When trying to run any DirectFB command as a regular user I get permission errors like this: > > $ dfbinfo > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.5.3 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > (c) 2001-2010 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community > (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2012-05-19 15:35) > (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy() > (!) DirectFB/core/vt: Error opening `/dev/tty1'! > --> Permission denied > (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core! > --> A general initialization error occured > (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: A general initialization error occured > > > Even when I go and change the permissions on /dev/ttyX and /dev/fb/0 and then put those into udev rules then I still get > an error about MEDIUMRAW mode. > > > I am able to run some DirectFB commands as root but that is no good for creating app for general user. > > > Can anyone, developer, packager, shed some light on why DirectFB will not run on F17 as a regular user? > > Thank you. > > . > So after fixing permissions on tty and fb I can get to here: $ dfbinfo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.5.3 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) 2001-2010 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH ---------------------------------------------------------------- (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2011-08-23 22:08) (!) DirectFB/fbdev/vt: K_MEDIUMRAW failed! --> Operation not permitted (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core! --> A general initialization error occured (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: A general initialization error occured $ What needs to be done to fix this error? Google is absolutely no help. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel