On Monday 16 Jun 2003 15:59, Nathan Middleton wrote: > Assuming you have a working framebuffer device already and a > well-formed, useful ~/.xinitrc, just run startxdfb.
Could you please tell us what you mean by a well-formed, useful ~/.xinitrc? An example perhaps? Peter > > -- > Nathan Middleton > > > ah, well, i just noticed that directfb was emerged and i started to > > emerge xdirectfb :) > > > > does anybody perhaps have any resources on how i can get started > > with directfb _instead_ of Xfree? > > > > cheers, > > -bri > > > > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:35, MIKE MacMartin wrote: > >> > so i did an `emerge -s directfb' and got the obvious results: > >> > `dev-libs/DirectFB', `dev-libs/DirectFB-extra' and > >> > >> 'x11-base/xdirectfb' > >> > >> > but neither of these will work if i go for the `emerge -puD > >> > directfb' all i get is the following message: > >> > >> I wrestle with this a log ... emerge -s is essentially doing a > >> grep -i on all > >> of them... note the "case insensitive" flag. Unfortunately, > >> emerge doesn't > >> do this as well. So, the command you'd want is emerge DirectFB, > >> emerge DirectFB-extra or emerge xdirectfb. > >> > >> > cheers, > >> > -bri > >> > >> MIKE > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ================================================== Gentoo Linux: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.9 kernel-2.4.21_rc8-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ ================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list