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.
.
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