From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=EDctor_Abeytua_Garc=EDa?= Subject: Re: Framebuffer error Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:55:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20070712125522.GA6972@nosys.net> References: <469605F1.5090304@qumranet.com> <20070712115257.GA6451@nosys.net> <46961879.3060209@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46961879.3060209-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.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, V=EDctor Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:03:05PM +0300, Avi Kivity escribi=F3: >V=EDctor Abeytua Garc=EDa 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 > -- = V=EDctor Abeytua Garc=EDa ----------- Socio Consultor Nosys AJjV S.L. Networked Open SYStems Tecnolog=EDas de la Informaci=F3n =B7 Seguridad C/ Isla Graciosa 2, Loft 18 28700 San Sebasti=E1n de los Reyes Madrid (Spain) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/