From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonino Daplas Subject: Re: Frame buffer Reading fails!! Date: 04 Jan 2003 19:06:37 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1041678353.957.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <00df01c2b33f$a1354690$bd00000a@abhilash> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from willow.compass.com.ph ([202.70.96.38]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18UmKl-0002Ul-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 03:19:20 -0800 Received: from AP-202-70-105-31.compass.com.ph (AP-202-70-105-31.compass.com.ph [202.70.105.31]) by willow.compass.com.ph (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA46606 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:19:15 +0800 (PHT) (envelope-from adaplas@pol.net) In-Reply-To: <00df01c2b33f$a1354690$bd00000a@abhilash> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Fbdev development list 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf