From: Jeff Bachtel <sebastion@irelandmail.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:28:37 -0500

Re: nubee Q

According to the fbdev docs in the linux source dist, your devices should look like:

crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29,   0 Feb 11 22:35 /dev/fb0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Feb 11 22:36 /dev/fb0current -> fb0
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29,  32 Feb 11 22:35 /dev/fb1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Feb 11 22:36 /dev/fb1current -> fb1
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29,  64 Feb 11 22:35 /dev/fb2
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29,  96 Feb 11 22:35 /dev/fb3
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29, 128 Feb 11 22:35 /dev/fb4
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29, 160 Feb 11 22:35 /dev/fb5
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29, 192 Feb 11 22:35 /dev/fb6
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      29, 224 Feb 11 22:36 /dev/fb7

I'm not certain how useful this all is (having multiple fbdevs), but I know I haven't had any
probs running ggi apps with the fbdev target, as a non-root user.

That may also be the result of running ggi apps, maybe the ggi lib is suid. I also know my
fbdev X worked (or at least I think I did)

Of course, your mileage may vary,
jeff

On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 05:55:20PM +0000, Timothy MacDonald wrote:
> I could be wrong here, but I have a millenium and I had to perform the extra step
> of making the frame buffer device in /dev.
> 
> After recompiling the kernel with matroxfb support ( and of course booting with
> this kernel ) issue the following command ( as root ):
> 
> mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0
> 
> This creates a framebuffer device for the kernel hook to matroxfb.
> 
> regards,
> 
>     Timothy MacDonald
>     Unix System Administrator
>     Landmark Graphics
>     tmacdonald@lgc.com
>     (281)560-1418
> 
> P.S. Ok let me add a question. The above only allows me to run fbdev targets as
> root. What do I need to do to allow others to access the device? Do I need
> KGIcon?
> 
> 
> 
> becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:
> 
> > Hi !
> >
> > > Hi.
> > > I downloaded and installed these RPM-packages:
> > > libggi-2.0beta2-1
> > > libggi-demos-2.0beta2-1
> > > libggi-devel-2.0beta2-1
> > > libgii-0.5beta2-1
> > > libgii-demos-0.5beta2-1
> > > libgii-devel-0.5beta2-1
> > > svgalib4ggi-0.6beta2-1
> > > svgalib4ggi-devel-0.6beta2-1
> > >
> > > Now what?? :)
> >
> > O.K. - first do some tests. I haven't looked at the RPMs, but I assume the
> > libggi-demos RPM contains a few things to toy around with.
> >
> > For a first try, start up X as usual and try some of the demos. They should
> > run in a window within your X server. If that goes well, LibGGI seems
> > to work properly.
> >
> > > How do I configure things to use my HW?
> > > I have a Panasync SL90 screen and a Matrox Millenium.
> >
> > What type of Millenium ? I, II, G200, ... ?
> >
> > > I'm running RH 5.2, kernel 2.0.36 (which i plan to upgrade to 2.2.6 soon).
> >
> > First upgrade your kernel to 2.2.x. This should give you the option to
> > enable matroxfb support in the kernel.
> >
> > If you boot up with this, LibGGI will automatically make use of it, so that
> > you can start programs from the console.
> >
> > CU, Andy
> >
> > --
> > = Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =