Re: Framebuffer error

Benjamin Budts
2007-07-12T14:17:55Z

I had the same problem, I missed couple of SDL packages...

here is my package list under debian :

ii libsdl1.2-dev
1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer development
files
ii libsdl1.2debian
1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa
1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11
and ALSA

also check the following file :
/sys/class/misc/kvm/dev

I had to create a file manually using mknod...

mknod /dev/kvm c (low and high number of the file above

hope this helps you out

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?
>
> Best regards,
> Víctor
>
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