Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Frame buffer Reading fails!!

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 23:48, Abhilash wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As u suggested I tried following code in RedHat7.1.
> But it shows
> 
>  "The framebuffer device was opened successfully."
>  "Error reading fixed information."
> 
> What could be the problem?
> I am new to this.
> 

Try doing it again as root.  /dev/fbX is most probably owned by root (as
it should be).

If it still doesn't work, do a  

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 

to check if /dev/fb0 is valid.  BTW, what fb driver are you using?

Tony