On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:49 +0900, Steve B wrote: > On 6/29/05, anthony hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Matrox G550 dual head graphics card and I want to have DirectFB > > running on one head for VDR output http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ using > > softdevice, and the other head running XDirectFB so I have a local > > graphical desktop. > > > > The latest ebuild for xdirectfb is broken the compile runs but produces > > no binary - seems to be related to some broken macros - see bug report > > below http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76167 > > > > Anyone have any tips on getting XdirectFB working on gentoo 2005? > > > > I have DriectFB and VDR all working now - just need XDirectFB to be > > working and its all done. > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > Anthony. > I have searched for a long time for a solution to this. I would > recommended to build it yourself (althought that has never worked for > me either) it might help you. But the question has been asked by a > lot of people for a long time, and no solutions or comments have been > suggested. Perhaps there is regex somewhere deep within Gentoo that > has XDirectFB piped to /dev/null (terrible joke.. but hey its late and > i'm tired). Anyways if you do find a solution and get XDirectFB > built.. share the knowledge ;P >
I'm thinking I might have a go at fixing this - it is sufficiently annoying to warrant further investigation. If I come up with a fix I'll post it here and submit it back to the gentoo bugs page. Thanks for the help. Anthony. -- Mr Anthony Hornby RHCE BIT ALIATEC Library Systems & Technology Coordinator Charles Darwin University | CRICOS 300K [EMAIL PROTECTED] | office +61 8 89 466011 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
