<p>Hi Gerry,</p>
<p>Try contacting the main dev. mailing-list of DirectFB. I'm sure you'll get an answer there.</p>
<p>Btw, DirectFB-1.5.3 is rather old, DirectFB-1.6.1 is rather the latest stable release.</p>
<p>-Ilyes</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 28, 2012 1:04 AM, "Gerry Reno" <<a href="mailto:greno@verizon.net">greno@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 08/24/2012 06:56 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:<br>
> I have had no success whatsoever getting DirectFB to run under F17 as a regular user on my HP laptop.<br>
><br>
> # yum list DirectFB<br>
><br>
> Installed Packages<br>
> directfb.x86_64 1.5.3-7.fc17<br>
> @updates<br>
><br>
><br>
> I have discussed the problems on the DirectFB mailing list and they direct me back to the distro.<br>
><br>
> When trying to run any DirectFB command as a regular user I get permission errors like this:<br>
><br>
> $ dfbinfo<br>
><br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.5.3 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
> (c) <a href="tel:2001-2010" value="+21620012010">2001-2010</a> The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community<br>
> (c) <a href="tel:2000-2004" value="+21620002004">2000-2004</a> Convergence (integrated media) GmbH<br>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------<br>
><br>
> (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2012-05-19 15:35)<br>
> (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy()<br>
> (!) DirectFB/core/vt: Error opening `/dev/tty1'!<br>
> --> Permission denied<br>
> (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core!<br>
> --> A general initialization error occured<br>
> (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: A general initialization error occured<br>
><br>
><br>
> 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<br>
> an error about MEDIUMRAW mode.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I am able to run some DirectFB commands as root but that is no good for creating app for general user.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Can anyone, developer, packager, shed some light on why DirectFB will not run on F17 as a regular user?<br>
><br>
> Thank you.<br>
><br>
> .<br>
><br>
<br>
So after fixing permissions on tty and fb I can get to here:<br>
<br>
$ dfbinfo<br>
<br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.5.3 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
(c) 2001-2010 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community<br>
(c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH<br>
----------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2011-08-23 22:08)<br>
(!) DirectFB/fbdev/vt: K_MEDIUMRAW failed!<br>
--> Operation not permitted<br>
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core!<br>
--> A general initialization error occured<br>
(#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: A general initialization error occured<br>
$<br>
<br>
<br>
What needs to be done to fix this error? Google is absolutely no help.<br>
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