Hi Gerry, Try contacting the main dev. mailing-list of DirectFB. I'm sure you'll get an answer there.
Btw, DirectFB-1.5.3 is rather old, DirectFB-1.6.1 is rather the latest stable release. -Ilyes On Aug 28, 2012 1:04 AM, "Gerry Reno" <gr...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 08/24/2012 06:56 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > > 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. > > > > . > > > > So after fixing permissions on tty and fb I can get to here: > > $ 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 > $ > > > What needs to be done to fix this error? Google is absolutely no help. > > > > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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