[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes:
> Christoph Egger wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >
> > > This might well be the reason. However I got the same error when I tried to
> > > start XGGI as a user although it did start when I had logged in as root.
> > > I gave world write permission to /dev/fb0 (I don't have /dev/fb/0).
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > That means, that you don't have installed devfs.
>
> Well, that doesn't chage XGGI's behaviour:
> XGGI & resulted in the error "display fb-dev: Couldn't open framebuffer device
> /dev/fb/0: Not a directory" before I gave world write access to /dev/fb0 and now
> it works glamerously!
>
> Is there any other reason why one should have /dev/fb/[0-7] instead of
> /dev/fb[0-7] ?
Just a confusing error message.
It really means "Couldn't open /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0", but it tries
/dev/fb/0 last, so that's what's printed.
//Marcus
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