Re: Framebuffer error

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

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.


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