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.

.

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