On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:54:12AM -0200, Philipe Gaspar wrote: > this is some strange > > hour:/home/kr0n# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 > bash: /dev/fb0: No such device not really, it just means you don't have a framebuffer configured in your kernel. intel machines usually do not use a framebuffer (almost certainly not by default) however nearly all powerpc and sparc hardware require framebuffers. > hour:/home/kr0n# ls -ls /dev/fb0 > 0 crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Jul 5 14:44 /dev/fb0 apparently writing random garbage into the fb devices is not supposed to cause a kernel panic, that seems to be a bug in the framebuffer driver in my kernel. (or perhaps all 2.2 kernels with aty128fb) i still think it would be more appropriate to have these permissions set to 620 root.video. opinions? or should i file a wishlist bug against makedev? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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