[Fwd: Re: [Lcdproc] CFontzPacket: open(/dev/ttyUSB0) failed(Permissiondenied)]

[Andrew Foss]

 > not sure about the the "-u" works as a way to change user.
 >
 > login as root and execute the binary from a root shell in the foreground
 >
 > LCDd -c /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf -f

This has gotten the display working! It complained about the -f so I
added -f 1 and then it was happy. Thanks, I'll play with it more
tomorrow. 3:45AM is a late night ;-)
 >
 > andrew
 >
 > Randy Hammock wrote:
 > >
 > > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 02:25 -0700, Andrew Foss wrote:
 > > > could you try running LCDd as root, just for diagnosis?
 > >
 > > Thanks for quick reply.
 > >
 > > Same results:
 > > After plugging in deisplay:
 > > [rhammock@red lcdproc-0.5.0]$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
 > > crw-rw----  1 root uucp 188, 0 Jun  9 02:49 /dev/ttyUSB0
 > >
 > > Run as nobody:
 > > [rhammock@red lcdproc-0.5.0]$ server/LCDd
 > > CFontzPacket: open(/dev/ttyUSB0) failed (Permission denied)
 > > Driver [CFontzPacket] init failed, return code < 0
 > > Could not load driver CFontzPacket
 > > There is no output driver
 > > Critical error while initializing, abort.
 > >
 > > Run as root:
 > > [rhammock@red lcdproc-0.5.0]$ server/LCDd -u root
 > > CFontzPacket: open(/dev/ttyUSB0) failed (Permission denied)
 > > Driver [CFontzPacket] init failed, return code < 0
 > > Could not load driver CFontzPacket
 > > There is no output driver
 > > Critical error while initializing, abort.
 > >
 > > --
 > > Randy Hammock KC6HUR
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 > >
 >
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