From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Abbott Subject: Re: Linux Display silly question Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:54:55 +0000 Message-ID: <4241BB7F.2000001@comcast.net> References: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348113F4FA1@mail.esn.co.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348113F4FA1@mail.esn.co.in> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Mukund JB." , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Mukund JB. wrote: >Hi all, >Hi all, > >I am very new to the GUI thing. I don't know how it works. >I just have base Linux kernel running on an EBD9312 ARM Embedded Board >with Linux Prompt working & no display. > >Now, I want to provide GUI support to the existing Linux. Now I just >want to know are there any kernel modules that the kernel should have to >support the GUI? >The framebuffer driver is already active. I have NO X server on the >machine because of memory constraints. > >I have gone through a lot of Maillists which say I need to some GUI >Library or tools like > > GtkFB - does NOT use X11 > Qt/Embedded - Direct Framebuffer access and so on. > >I have a very basic doubt here. I mean how I can launch the GUI >Application when there is no UI (NO X server). >I think there will be an intermediate desktop like thing which I am >missing from where I can launch my application. Is there any thing like >that for an ARM embedded system. > >Please help to understand this? > >Regards, >Mukund jampala > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > I dunno if this will help since I am not sure of the memory usage, but there is an alternative to X that is in its infant stages. http://www.y-windows.org/ Jeremy Abbott jkbullfrog@comcast.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs