Re: X on latest potato?

[Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@voicenet.com>]

It turns out there was a little more to this than just a symlink
for /dev/fb to /dev/fb0. In my case, /dev/fb0 somehow had perms

crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,   0 Mar 30 22:46 /dev/fb0

so running X as root worked fine after the symlink but still
failed for normal user. Once I added the user to group tty and
added read to the group perms X starts fine for normal user.

What should the perms be for the /dev/fb* devices? Should MAKEDEV
have run for one of the updates and didn't?

Regards,
Rich

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Rich Sahlender wrote:

> Just did an "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade" on an Ultra1 from frozen.
> Havn't done one in about two weeks and some thirty packages were updated.
> Among the updates was xserver-xsun/xserver-xsun24 which no longer seem
> to work.
> 
> $ startx
> 
> (using VT number 7)
> 
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> $
> 
> Anyone know what's up before I spend time debugging a known problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich
> 
> 
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