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
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