Re: Framebuffer error

["Víctor Abeytua García" <victor-0q91xOmC87Y@public.gmane.org>]

Thanks a lot,
	I was looking at the wrong place. I was trying to launch the
installation as root after sudoing. And as root I didn't have the DISPLAY
variable. Now the installation is proceeding smoothly.

	Best regards,
	Víctor

Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:03:05PM +0300, Avi Kivity escribió:

>Víctor Abeytua García wrote:
>>Hello,
>>	I know this is not probably the place, but as I haven't found a
>>kvm-users list and probably some of you have encountered the same problem 
>>I feel
>>it's the best place to post my problem.  I have a macbook pro running 
>>Feisty
>>with a Radeon Mobility X1600 and VMX cpu support and I was quite 
>>interested in
>>trying kvm. I followed the steps of any of the online manuals, but I 
>>didn't get
>>far. As soon as I tried to install Windows XP:
>>
>>	kvm -no-acpi -m 384 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d windows.img
>>
>>	I obtained  the following output:
>>	
>>       ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 ---------------------
>>             (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH  
>>             (c) 2002-2004  convergence GmbH                   
>>        -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2006-12-20 21:25) 
>>(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using MMX optimized memcpy()
>>(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
>>    --> 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!
>>    --> Initialization error!
>>Could not initialize SDL - exiting
>>	
>>	I checked and couldn't find any framebuffer device in my computer. 
>>	After
>>googling a lot, creating those devices manually, trying to boot with both 
>>the
>>propietary and open source driver, loading the radeonfb module I haven't 
>>been
>>able to avoid this problem. Could someone in the list enlighten me?
>>  
>
>This is strange.  You're running in X, right?  Is $DISPLAY set 
>correctly?  Maybe some other environment variable is telling SDL to use 
>a framebuffer instead of X.
>
>
>-- 
>error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>

-- 

Víctor Abeytua García


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