Okay, so I'm (a) not exactly a programmer [I am fixing that though] and (b) using RHL7 on a 120 MHz Pentium, 48 MB RAM, with a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434/36 video card with 1 MB video memory. I downloaded a bunch of random files from your site, such as pkgconfig, files 2 files beginning with XDirectFB, and several files beginning with DirectFB that appeared to be current. I dumped them all into a temporary directory, and did tar -xvzf or tar -xvIf for each gz or bz2. In each directory that I had the appropriate files, I ran ./configure and then ran 'make' and 'make install', and everything ran fine. I can't exactly figure out what to do with XDirectFB though. So, simply, I'm asking how to install it and use it as an interface. Yes, I have a /proc/fb. If you're going to tell me that my hardware, mainly video card, sucks too much too run anything like DirectFB, I'll probably tell you that I'll soon be building a new box with most likely some kind of Matrox video card with at least 16 MB of video memory - I've been cursed with crappy video cards all my life, you see, and I'm about to break that.
Are my current ideas horribly wrong about what DirectFB is - is it just a programming and graphics library, or is it an entire interface (at least with a WM on top)? If not, I'm wondering how you made all the screenshots. -Chris Hodapp -- _______________________________________________ Download the free Opera browser at http://www.opera.com/ Powered by Outblaze -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
