On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:55:39AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > When I try to start links2 -g from the console I get this error: > > $ links2 -g > > ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 --------------------- > (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH > (c) 2002-2004 convergence GmbH > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2006-12-04 07:00) > (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using SSE optimized memcpy() > (!) DirectFB/core/vt: Error opening `/dev/tty0'! > --> Permission denied
Sounds like the you don't have the necessary privileges on /dev/tty0... Did you log in as root on the console and then "su - andrei" ? This would explain it... > (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core! > --> Initialization error! > svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. > $ > > But it does work as root (yes, I know, it was just a short test). > > Here is some more data that might be relevant: > > $ id > uid=1000(amp77) gid=1000(amp77) > groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),1000(amp77) > > $ ls -l /dev/tty0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 0 2007-05-18 11:37 /dev/tty0 I presume that this is from the session where links2 didn't work? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: When a person goes on a diet, the first thing he loses is his temper.
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