Whn I start XDirecfFB I get: # XDirectFB :1 XDirectFB / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.20 --------------------- (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH (c) 2002-2003 convergence GmbH ----------------------------------------------------------- (*) Single Application Core. (2004-07-09 11:00) (*) DirectFB/misc/memcpy: using ppcasm_memcpy() (*) DirectFB/InputDevice: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (!) keyboard thread died --> Bad file descriptor Zabit (SIGKILL) or alternate, less frequent error: (*) DirectFB/InputDevice: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (!) DirectFB/core/vt: Unable to disallocate VT! --> Device or resource busy Zabit (SIGKILL) The X server switches to different vt and back immediately, produces noting than this output. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # USE=-pie emerge xdirectfb or just emerge xdirectfb 2. # xdirectfb Actual Results: cannot start X server Expected Results: at least see a screen with mouse cursor Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-ppc-2004.1, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r7 ppc 745/755 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=750 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=750 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d alsa audiofile berkdb bzlib caps cdr cpdflib crypt cups curl dedicated dga dio directfb divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal fam fbcon flac flash foomaticdb ftp gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hardened hardenedphp iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jpeg kde lcms libgda libwww mad maildir mikmod ming mitshm mmap motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses netcdf nls nocd offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic pie png posix ppc ppds python quicktime readline recode ruby samba sasl sdl session shared slang slp snmp sockets speex spell ssl svg sysvipc szip tcpd tetex tidy tiff truetype unicode usb video_cards_rage128 videos vxwindows wmf xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xv xvid zlib" emerge -s xdirectfb Searching... [ Results for search key : xdirectfb ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-base/xdirectfb Latest version available: 1.0_rc5-r1 Latest version installed: 1.0_rc5-r1 Size of downloaded files: 66,044 kB Homepage: http://www.directfb.org Description: XDirectFB is a rootless XServer on top of DirectFB License: X11
Give -r2 a try if you're still interested; just added now.
I'm going with the assumption this is fixed in the new version. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
