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rahulthewall
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 Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:48 am Post subject: How to startx without pointer and keyboard on a fbdev |
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Well, this is completely unrelated to gentoo, so if this is not the right place to post it, please move it to the appropriate place.
Anyways, my point is that I am building a ramdisk for a port of MontaVista on the arm processor. I do not have any keyboard/mouse as I am running this on a virtual machine. However, I want to configure X server on it. There are a couple of questions I have regarding to that.
First of all I have a framebuffer device. I have a CLCD GUI hooked up the virtual platform which displays the kernel boot logo, however I have no /dev/fb in my /dev directory. So, I do not know on which device is that logo displayed and I obviously need that information to start the X server.
Secondly, I need information on how to start the X server without any keyboard, mouse or input device as I do not have these on my virtual platform.
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Rahul
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bertaboy
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Regarding your second question:
http://linux.die.net/man/4/void
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rahulthewall
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Thanks for the info, but my supervisor went ahead and implemented a virtual keyboard and a mouse for me, so I just have to configure the fbdev right now, which I am not able to do. X server is failing with the following error, maybe some one here has an idea:
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# xinit
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/10.0.2.15:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: MontaVista Linux [ELF] MontaVista Software, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux 10.0.2.15 2.6.18_pro500-versatile926ejs #144 PREEMPT Wed Aug 20 16:38:21 CEST 2008 armv5tejl
Build Date: 10 March 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument
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I have a Sanyo QVGA as a framebuffer device, but there was no corresponding entry in the /dev directory so i created one:
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mknod /dev/fb/0 c 29 0
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Please someone tell me I made a mistake somewhere for I would love to get this working. Pleasant end to the internship, it would be. 
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Rahul
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