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Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with qemu on Ubuntu Gutsy ...
From: |
andrzej zaborowski |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with qemu on Ubuntu Gutsy ... |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:46:18 +0100 |
On 21/11/2007, dara burke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been looking around for a solution to this problem that I've been
> having with qemu on ubuntu Gutsy. It seemed to work fine on Feisty, but I
> haven't been able to find anyone else with a similar complaint in the ubuntu
> forums or on google or on irc, so maybe a simple upgrade problem isn't the
> issue. I hope it's OK to post to the dev mailing list ?
It is quite clearly an SDL issue, rather than qemu.
>
> The system seems to have a problem locating the framebuffer, also SDL
> doesn't get initialized.
>
> address@hidden:/home/babo/qemu_dir# qemu -localtime -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 384
> -boot d c.img
> Warning: No DNS servers found
>
> ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 ---------------------
> (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH
> (c) 2002-2004 convergence GmbH
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2007-08-07 19:21)
> (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using linux kernel memcpy()
> (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
> --> No such file or directory
> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment
> variable.
> (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
> --> Initialization error!
> Could not initialize SDL - exiting
>
> I'd try to start the system from X, but there doesn't seem to be any method
> of doing that. Obviously there is a framebuffer somewhere, but the command
> line qemu can't seem to find it.
Your SDL may be built with no X support, if you're sure it supports X
then try forcing it with SDL_VIDEODRIVER. The message above actually
indicates there's no framebuffer.
Regards