RE: Getting started
"Steven Blakeslee" <[email protected]>
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> I am running Fedora Core 4 and I have rebuilt the kernel to make sure > FB support is in the kernel. I have a simple FB program that I have > compiled but everytime I try to run it, I get: I am assuming that you are trying to write to your monitor. Just compiling frame buffer support will not do this. You need to have a specific frame buffer driver for your graphics device. > Error: cannot open framebuffer device /dev/fb0. - No such device rc=-1 When there is no actual device assigned to the frame buffer you will usually see this. Or, it is not pointing to the correct device, I.E. wrong major and minor number. > I have done the mkdir: What do you mean by mkdir? Do you mean mknod? The devices in the /dev are nodes not directories. > [wre00@Shrek FB]$ ls -lrt /dev/fb* > crwxrwxr-x 1 wre00 root 29, 0 Aug 17 10:05 /dev/fb0 Just because something is in /dev does not mean there is a device driver associated with it. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf