On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:32:22PM +0200, Tomas Berndtsson wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I use /dev/fb0 in another program (fbview with oFBis, a framebuffer > > > library) and that works just fine, so I don't understand why opening > > > the /dev/fb0 would give EBUSY for the X server. > > > > What are the perms on /dev/fb0? > > 644, owner root group root. And I run startx as root too.
644 or 622? Mine looks like this: crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Feb 20 1999 /dev/fb0 Try doing this: chown root.tty /dev/fb0 chmod 622 /dev/fb0 MAKEDEV should also work in creating it with the correct perms.
