Re: GTK frontend: call for testing the directframebuffer environment

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > actually all those snapshot were taken on an X environment: up till some 
> > weeks ago X was the only working environment where the gtk frontend 
> > could be run.
> > Anyway Mike Emmel has managed to insert directframebuffer support inside 
> > gtk 2.7 and Davide Viti has precompiled those gtkdfb libs
> >
> > https://debian.polito.it/downloads/dfb_2.7.0-3.tgz
>
>
> I tried this. Have to load d-i modules first to get libpthread. Then I
> ran ghello. It failed to bring up graphics, error was:
>
> FBDev: No supported modes found in /etc/fb.modes and current mode mot supported!
>
> /etc/fb.modes does not exist... any idea what I can try to get this to
> work?

this is because a complete installation of directfb has never been done 
before.
you can get that file and many others that are required from my old gtk 
dfb test case

https://debian.polito.it/downloads/d-i_dfb.tar.gz

without having to install a real dfb distribution on your system.

just unpack the tarball's content in, let's say, /home/joey/dfb_kit and 
link from the right location on the filesytem the files dfb complains 
are missing (ex: cd /etc; ln -s /home/joey/dfb_kit/etc/fb.modes )

note that often dfb apps need to be run as root

sorry about the https : that server doesn't offer http support

ciao

attilio