Re: Framebuffer error

Víctor Abeytua García
2007-07-12T12:55:22Z

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
>

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