On 24 Sep 2012, at 10:16, Tarek El-Sherbiny wrote: > I'm using the MM soc i.MX6 from freescale. My application doesn't require a > full fledged desktop GUI so I'm basing my work on minimal image. The > application needs to play video "Possibly full screen" using gstreamer and > just draw some buttons over the video for control using SDL.
I've no experience with that platform, but... > I have included libsdl - libsdl-image - libx11 and this is what was installed: > root@imx6qsabrelite:~# rpm -qa |grep sdl > libsdl-1.2-0-1.2.15-r0.armv7a > libsdl-image-1.2-0-1.2.10-r3.armv7a > > root@imx6qsabrelite:~# rpm -qa |grep libx > libxau6-1.0.7-r0.armv7a > libxdmcp6-1.1.1-r0.armv7a > libxml2-2.7.8-r7.armv7a > libxcb1-1.8.1-r0.armv7a > libx11-6-1.4.4-r3.armv7a > libxext6-1.3.1-r0.armv7a > libx11-xcb1-1.4.4-r3.armv7a > libxfixes3-5.0-r0.armv7a > libxrender1-0.9.7-r0.armv7a > libxi6-1.4.5-r0.armv7a > libxxf86vm1-1.1.2-r0.armv7a > libxdamage1-1.1.3-r1.armv7a > libxtst6-1.2.1-r0.armv7a > > I still get the same error message so I'm not sure what else I need to do to > tell SDL to use HDMI video output? Do you also need to have an X server to use Xlib? > > If it easer to use DirectFB rather than libx11 I can do that. Is it only > directfb that I need to include? Is there any configuration parameters that I > need to enable? If you don't need a full GUI then DirectFB will certainly do the job. All I did to get this going was: 1) Add libsdl as a dependency; 2) Add the following to local.conf to pull in DirectFB and build libsdl to use it: DISTRO_FEATURES += " directfb" > Thanks in advance. > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Chris Tapp <opensou...@keylevel.com> wrote: > On 23 Sep 2012, at 20:07, Tarek El-Sherbiny wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm porting a program which uses SDL to openembedded Yocto-project. I have > > included libsdl to my image but SDL is failling to initialize > > SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) gives: > > No available video device > > > > What are the packages that I need to install to get SDL video device? > > What graphics do you have available? I've got it working ok using DirectFB > and X11 should be ok as well. > > Chris Tapp > > opensou...@keylevel.com > www.keylevel.com > > > > Chris Tapp opensou...@keylevel.com www.keylevel.com
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