From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David J Ring Jr Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:58:19 +0000 Subject: Re: Getting FB to work in Console Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Hello Anatolij, Nice to hear from you and thank you for your suggestions. I did what you said and now I have a /dev/fb0 with permissions ls /dev/fb0 -alsh 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 Nov 13 18:25 /dev/fb0 Output of cat /proc/fb No output. Output of cat proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=3D/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=3DUUID=CB1268f1-4e20-4409-87b1= -3d882c14102c ro nomodeset Output of dmesg | grep vesa No output. When I try to run links2 -g now I get these errors: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.2.10 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) 2001-2008 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH ---------------------------------------------------------------- (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2010-06-30 18:37)=20 (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening '/dev/fb0'! --> No such device (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core! --> Not supported! I hope that is helpful. David On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Anatolij Gustschin wrote: > You have to add write permissions for the group also. Check if > /dev/fb0 can be accessed if you create it by using > sudo mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 -m 660 > sudo chown :video /dev/fb0 > > What is the output of following commands on your system? > cat /proc/fb > cat /proc/cmdline > dmesg | grep vesa > > Anatolij >