Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:28:29PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > > hour:/home/kr0n# ls -ls /dev/fb0 > > > > 0 crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Jul 5 14:44 /dev/fb0 > > > > > > apparently writing random garbage into the fb devices is not supposed > > > to cause a kernel panic, that seems to be a bug in the framebuffer > > > driver in my kernel. (or perhaps all 2.2 kernels with aty128fb) i > > > still think it would be more appropriate to have these permissions set > > > to 620 root.video. > > > > root.tty makes a lot of sense to me, too. > > really? why? group tty is pretty much just for write and talk, which > have no relevence to framebuffer devices.
Okay, you got me :) Not knowing the groups in Debian very well, I assumed group tty was related to console. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
