If you have your server running already and you get  "authorization
rejections" from clients they don't have anythoing to do with access 
to /dev/fb*. Your clients may not have the correct credentials to
connect to the server. For test purposes you can disable access
control entirely by specifying '-ac' on the server command line.

Egbert.


Leo Przybylski writes:
 > Hello all,
 > 
 > I have created an XVirtualFrameBufferServer build as a regular user (not 
 > root) and have it started up. Please keep in mind I do not have 'root' 
 > access.
 > 
 > I am curious though how Xvfb works. I read that I need /dev/fb* devices 
 > to talk to. Is this true? Is the Xvfb related to the Framebuffer of the 
 > linux kernel?
 > 
 > I am having authorization rejections when connecting to my server. What 
 > I did was I looked into the /dev/fb* device permissions. I found that I 
 > do not have access to these devices, so I tried to create my own with 
 > mknod. I get 'Operation not permitted' errors. I'm guessing I need to be 
 > root to do this.
 > 
 > Is there anyone that can help me get the Xvfb working? I would like to 
 > use it to run automated tests on some java programs I am running on 
 > linux and require an X server.
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