It is possible to run DirectFB on VMware.
try this. you can do almost same stuff on Ubuntu.
http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/DirectFB:First_Step
BTW, how you revert the top page?
I dont know how.
--- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
>I'm trying to install DirectFB in a virtual machine running Ubuntu 7.04,
>which is being run through a Windows XP box.
>
>After following the install directions in the README (./configure, make,
>make install), I don't have a working installation. When I run dfbinfo
>in the tools directory, I get the following output:
>
>(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2007-05-31 17:46)
>(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' fialed
> --> No such file or directory
>(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
>(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment
>variable.
>(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
> --> Initiallization error!
>(#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: Initialization error!
>
>
>I apt-got fbset, and fbset -i returns
>open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>
>And it's true: there are no /dev/fb* devices to be found.
>
>Is it probable that the virtual machine just doesn't give me access to
>the computer's display? If so, is there a good workaround/a more correct
>way to do this?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>directfb-users mailing list
>[email protected]
>http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
>
>
_______________________________________________
directfb-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
