Ubuntu does not provide it infact. Is there such a distro? I'd like a live CD too, to study direct frame buffer...
2007/2/14, Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:05:26PM +0100, supernova wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to directFB and I would like to use it in place of xorg. > > where should i start? > > My pc is a hp pavillion dv6000 (dv6132 eu) with Ubuntu edgy (32 bit). > > I don't know if Ubuntu provides up-to-date DirectFB packages. If not > you should compile yourself. > > 1) If your kernel doesn't have framebuffer support you need to recompile > your kernel. If you want hw acceleration you need to use the specific fb > driver for your gfx hardware. In your case that might be nvidiafb. If > you enable nvidiafb it's best to disable vesafb and vga16fb. > Alternatively you can use vesafb. See DirectFB's README for some tips > about vesafb configuration. Reboot and make sure you still see the > console :) > > 2) Compile and install linux-fusion. See the README file for > instructions. > > 3) Compile and install DirectFB. Pass at least --enable-multi to > configure. Run 'configure --help' to see other options. Personally I > use this: > > configure --enable-maintainer-mode > --enable-multi --disable-sdl --enable-zlib --enable-video4linux2 > --with-gfxdrivers=matrox --with-inputdrivers=linuxinput > > You'll at least want to change the gfxdrivers option to match your > hardware. > > 4) Run dfbinfo and check the output for serious errors. > > 5) At this point you may want to try other DirectFB apps (like df_dok > from DirectFB-examples). > > 6) Get XDirectFB from CVS. Follow the instructions in the README. The > configure example in the README might be missing some useful options. > Here's what I use personally for xorg-server-1.1.1: > > configure --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-xorg > --disable-dmx --disable-xvfb --disable-xnest --disable-xwin > --disable-xprint --disable-xephyr --disable-xsdl --disable-dri > --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 --localstatedir=/var > --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb > --with-default-font-path=unix/:-1' > > I configure it like this because I want it to match my distro's Xorg > installation. After compiling I just copy the hw/directfb/XDirectFB > binary to /usr/bin. > > 7) Run it 'startx -- /usr/bin/XDirectFB'. > > -- > Ville Syrjälä > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ > _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
