On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:42:02 +0000, RobH  declaimed the
following:


>I wasn't running as root but now I am, and this what I got:
>
>pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/gpio/gpio17 $ sudo su root
>root@raspberrypi:/sys/devices/platform/soc/3f200000.gpio/gpiochip0/gpio/gpio17
#
>echo out > direction out

 Try "cd" back to /sys/class/gpio/gpio17

 You seem to be in the device directory, not the class directory
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