Assuming you have a working framebuffer device already and a well-formed, useful ~/.xinitrc, just run startxdfb.
-- Nathan Middleton > ah, well, i just noticed that directfb was emerged and i started to > emerge xdirectfb :) > > does anybody perhaps have any resources on how i can get started with > directfb _instead_ of Xfree? > > cheers, > -bri > > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:35, MIKE MacMartin wrote: >> > so i did an `emerge -s directfb' and got the obvious results: >> > `dev-libs/DirectFB', `dev-libs/DirectFB-extra' and >> 'x11-base/xdirectfb' >> > >> > but neither of these will work if i go for the `emerge -puD directfb' >> > all i get is the following message: >> >> I wrestle with this a log ... emerge -s is essentially doing a grep -i >> on all >> of them... note the "case insensitive" flag. Unfortunately, emerge >> doesn't >> do this as well. So, the command you'd want is emerge DirectFB, emerge >> DirectFB-extra or emerge xdirectfb. >> >> > >> > cheers, >> > -bri >> MIKE > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
