[MPlayer-users] "Couldn't open /dev/3dfx"

[Mark Zealey]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:57:05PM -0400, Geoff Stanbury wrote:

> Ok, I built tdfxfb as a module and compiled MPlayer using --with-tdfxfb.  To be on the safe side, I did "modprobe tdfxfb" (which, incidentally, did some weird stuff to my screen while in console--see bottom).  MPlayer is still not working, though--when I try to open a movie by running "mplayer -vo tdfxfb filename", it says "tdfxfb: can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied."  This despite the fact that my login is in the group that /dev/fb0 is in.
> 
> I tried opening a movie in the same way while logged in as root, but again it fails, saying "tdfxfb: can't open /dev/fb0: No such device" which is incorrect:

No, no need for the kernel module, I just use the plain framebuffer kernel, it
just needs /dev/fb0.

> geoff:~$ ls -l /dev/fb0
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,   0 Dec 27 21:05 /dev/fb0

should be rw..

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