Managed to successfully install DirectFB (specified *omap* for the video 
driver) on the BBB. However when I tried to run the sample JavaFX 8 program 
the following errors appeared:

cmd : cd '/home/debian/NetBeans_Projects//JavaFX_Test'; 
'/home/debian/ejre-1.8.0_fx/bin/java'  -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
-Djavafx.platform=directfb  -jar 
/home/debian/NetBeans_Projects//JavaFX_Test/dist/JavaFX_Test.jar 
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.7.4 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        (c) 2012-2013  DirectFB integrated media GmbH
        (c) 2001-2013  The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community
        (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
      ----------------------------------------------------------------
(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2014-05-06 20:02) 
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using libc memcpy()
(*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Fusion Dispatch' (1924) [MESSAGING - OTHER/0] 
<8388608>...
(!) System/DevMem: Please supply 'video-phys = 0xXXXXXXXX' and 
'video-length = XXXX' options!
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core!
    --> An invalid argument has been specified
 (!!!)  *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_dispatch] *** [fusion.c:3935]
DFB error, code 422552497, at 
/HUDSON/workspace/8.0/label/linux-arm-30/rt/modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/lens/wm/screen/dfbScreen.c
 
<287>:
May 06, 2014 8:24:24 PM com.sun.glass.ui.lens.LensApplication _initialize
SEVERE: 1923 dfbScreen.c:335 glass_application_initialize: Failed to 
initialize DirectFB
May 06, 2014 8:24:24 PM com.sun.glass.ui.lens.LensApplication _initialize
SEVERE: 1923 LensWindowManager.c:114 lens_wm_initialize: 
glass_application_initialize() failed
May 06, 2014 8:24:24 PM com.sun.glass.ui.lens.LensApplication$4 run
SEVERE: Display failed initialization
Exception in thread "Lens Event Thread" 
java.lang.RuntimeException: Display failed initialization
at com.sun.glass.ui.lens.LensApplication$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

On Friday, 20 June 2014 18:37:13 UTC+12, Nick Apperley wrote:
>
> Found an Oracle article 
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/embedded/develop-platforms/javafx.htm> 
> on getting JavaFX 8 to work on a Beagleboard-xM which may be relevant to 
> the BBB. In the article DirectFB <http://www.directfb.org/> is used for 
> graphics rendering however it is done in software, which may be BRUTAL 
> performance wise. Might be worth trying the DirectFB method which could 
> work for other technologies that require EGL 2 support (eg Kivy 
> <http://kivy.org> for Python).
>
>>
>>>

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