-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 00:51, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:11:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:27:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> On 12/03/07 21:22, Michael Pobega wrote: >>>>> Actually I think the problem is that I'm trying to initialize the >>>>> framebuffer from within Screen; Is there any way to pass the permissions >>>>> to Screen? >>>> Ah. I doubt it, since /screen/ probably does squirrelly stuff. >> Grant privs to fb0 *before* you start /screen/? With udev, maybe? > > I dubt that simple premission stuff would solve the issue. Even if you > log in in console as root and start screen, then framebuffer programs do > NOT work (but svgalib programs do work on achitectures that have it). > For example, fbgs says: > > ioctl VT_GETSTATE: Invalid argument (not a linux console?)
Good point. > I also dubt that udev will ever be able to do anything useful, but I > cannot be sure since for my good luck I do not use it. udev is very important to modern SCSI-heavy kernels, since the SCSI subsystem has always had the irksome habit of renaming existing devices if a new devices is added. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHVQCgS9HxQb37XmcRAotRAKDt0fVyCQselCofb/23HiJY4h80SwCgqrmZ DPsSa7NYPnzEaSGN+dpX53A= =Bd7d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
