On 08/28/2012 12:03 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > I have had no success whatsoever getting DirectFB to run under Fedora 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 user mailing list but without > any resolution. > > 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. > > $ 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 > $ > > > 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? > > My laptop has one of the new Intel Ivy Bridge CPU w/iGPU (Intel HD4000) plus > Nvidia Geforce GT 650M > > Not sure that would have any bearing on this though as I've encountered this > problem on other older processors as well. > > Thank you. > > . > > Also I installed DirectFB 1.6.1 into /usr/local and tried again but same result:
$ 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 _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev