[directfb-users] Re: Getting XDirectFB to work

[Ritesh Kumar <riteshk@iitk.ac.in>]

Hi David!
	The black thing moving that you saw was most probably your console 
mouse... did you hut down gpm before running xdirectfb. XDirectfb be 
default only looks at your ps/2 mouse and nothing else... I do not know 
about how do you enable support for gpm in it. Most probably it just 
looks at /dev/psaux and does its job. Before running xdirectfb you may 
try /etc/init.d/gpm stop and then start xdirectfb
	xdirectfb does not support quite some essential X extensions (GLX, 
XINPUT, XVideo) which are essential for KDE to run. So unless these are 
included you may safely forget running KDE over xdirectfb...
	Infact, I was wondering myself. Would it ever be possible to run KDE 
over directfb directly? ...because of the number of X-extensions kde 
seems to use... It would be really nice if somebody could throw light on 
this.

Ritesh

David Philippi wrote:
> I've been trying to run XDirectFB but I didn't have much success yet. I've 
> managed to get it running but I've got no real mouse support - there's a 
> fixed cursor in the middle of the screen and moving of the mouse creates some 
> black square. The main problem is something different though - most KDE 
> applications are crashing - I see some windows and parts of the desktop but 
> it's nothing usable.
> Another point - it didn't compile cleanly. I got XFree-4.2.1 from xfree86.org 
> and patched it with 1.0-rc3. make World didn't complain but make install did 
> compile some more files and then it had undefined references to RGB_15 or 
> similar (forgot the exact name but it was 15bit color mode). Commenting out 
> those parts solved the problem? 
> Compiler is gcc-3.2.2, DirectFB 0.9.16 with multiapp core, kernel is 2.4.20 
> vanilla.
> BTW it'd be nice if putting another Server into XF86Config-4 would really 
> start another server (mga in my case).
>
> Bye David
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