Peter, Just simply meant that it works and does what you need it to do.
I know after setting up the X fb server mine would startup to a blank desktop. BTW, a great thread in the forums is; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34174&highlight=xdirectfb I can vouch that those instructions at least worked for me on my two machines. > On Monday 16 Jun 2003 15:59, Nathan Middleton wrote: >> Assuming you have a working framebuffer device already and a >> well-formed, useful ~/.xinitrc, just run startxdfb. > > Could you please tell us what you mean by a well-formed, useful > ~/.xinitrc? An example perhaps? > > Peter >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- > ================================================== > Gentoo Linux: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.9 > kernel-2.4.21_rc8-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ > ================================================== > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- Nathan Middleton -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
