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From: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
To: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Frame buffer Reading fails!!
Date: 04 Jan 2003 19:06:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1041678353.957.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00df01c2b33f$a1354690$bd00000a@abhilash>

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 23:48, Abhilash wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As u suggested I tried following code in RedHat7.1.
> But it shows
> 
>  "The framebuffer device was opened successfully."
>  "Error reading fixed information."
> 
> What could be the problem?
> I am new to this.
> 

Try doing it again as root.  /dev/fbX is most probably owned by root (as
it should be).

If it still doesn't work, do a  

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 

to check if /dev/fb0 is valid.  BTW, what fb driver are you using?

Tony





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      reply	other threads:[~2003-01-04 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-03 15:48 Frame buffer Reading fails!! Abhilash
2003-01-04 11:06 ` Antonino Daplas [this message]

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