From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Framebuffer error Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:03:05 +0300 Message-ID: <46961879.3060209@qumranet.com> References: <469605F1.5090304@qumranet.com> <20070712115257.GA6451@nosys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: kvm-devel To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=EDctor_Abeytua_Garc=EDa?= Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070712115257.GA6451-SnOZ9tY4lpBeoWH0uzbU5w@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 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 Fei= sty > with a Radeon Mobility X1600 and VMX cpu support and I was quite interest= ed 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 var= iable. > (!) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/