I'm trying to run directfb as a regular user the same way I've been able to do for years prior to the recent releases of Fedora 16 and 17.
On 08/28/2012 07:02 PM, Chuck McManis wrote: > Maybe I'm mistaken, directfb is not a 'friendly' way to do user level things, > it seems to work really well in the > embedded market where everything runs as root. > > What are you trying to do exactly? > --Chuck > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Gerry Reno <gr...@verizon.net > <mailto:gr...@verizon.net>> wrote: > > On 08/28/2012 12:28 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > And if I run dfbinfo as root user I get an Undefined Symbol error: > > # 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() > ... > (!) Direct/Modules: Unable to dlopen > `/usr/lib64/directfb-1.5-0/gfxdrivers/libdirectfb_vdpau.so'! > --> /usr/lib64/directfb-1.5-0/gfxdrivers/libdirectfb_vdpau.so: > undefined symbol: XUnlockDisplay > > > So many problems. > > > > _______________________________________________ > directfb-dev mailing list > directfb-dev@directfb.org <mailto:directfb-dev@directfb.org> > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > directfb-dev mailing list > directfb-dev@directfb.org > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
