Hello David, On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:45:17 -0500 (EST) David J Ring Jr <n1ea@xxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Any suggestions? > > I have changed grub to give me a large 640x480 screen and that works but > and it gives me color say if I have bash add color to folders and > executables - and mc comes up in color but no links2 -g in color because > no /dev/fb0. > > Any other suggestions? > > I made my username member of its own group and also tty and video. > > As I said before I tried mknod and that worked but when I rebooted > /dev/fb0 was gone. > > I tried the mknod command again and it created /dev/fb0 > which is owned by root and in root group. I changed the group to video. > > Now root has rwx permissions the group can read and everyone can read. You have to add write permissions for the group also. Check if /dev/fb0 can be accessed if you create it by using sudo mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 -m 660 sudo chown :video /dev/fb0 > I run links2 -g and it still says it cannot access /dev/fb0. > > If I reboot /dev/fb0 will disappear. > > I'm stuck! What is the output of following commands on your system? cat /proc/fb cat /proc/cmdline dmesg | grep vesa Anatolij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
