Re: xserver-sun* breakage.
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 12:45:53PM +0200, Tomas Berndtsson wrote:
> Paul Vojta <vojta@math.berkeley.edu> writes:
>
> > > (using VT number 7)
> > >
> > > PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> I also get this error message with the latest xserver-xsun from Debian
> unstable. I have an SS5 with one cgsix framebuffer.
>
> An strace (sorry I don't have the exact output right here) tells me
> that it tries to open /dev/fb0 but gets an -EBUSY. Then it tried to
> open /dev/fb1, and, very strangely, doesn't get an error message, even
> though I only have one framebuffer.
>
> I use /dev/fb0 in another program (fbview with oFBis, a framebuffer
> library) and that works just fine, so I don't understand why opening
> the /dev/fb0 would give EBUSY for the X server.
What are the perms on /dev/fb0?
Ben
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