Quoting Tony Houghton: > It does seem a nice, straightforward fix, but I've been trying that all > along I'm afraid. As you say, the permissions of /dev/tty[0-9] seem to > change dynamically, but I've been making sure they have g+rw access and > that I'm a member of the appropriate group: they're currently owned by > root but there is actually a tty group, which I've also made myself a > member of. At one point I even backed up /dev/ and gave myself group > access to the whole lot of it, but that didn't help either.
The kernel does an explicit check for the root user in certain ioctls ;( IIRC at least VT_GETSTATE was prohibited regardless of the device perms. > Having consoles on the TV would be a nice little "bonus" feature as long > as it doesn't interfere with DFB, but solving this access problem is my > main priority for now. You can use DFBTerm on the TV. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------"
