Window Manager Under TinyX Help!!!

Jun 13, 2007 2 Replies
Z

Dear.



Now I am runing TinyX on ARM. Have run Xfbdev successful.



The next step, I want to run a window manager in ARM linux.



I have found swm in TinyX/bin direction.



But When i runing swm ERROR:



could not open display



if i run swm -display /dev/fb0? Also it error could not open display /dev/fb0



Also there are many other window manager, such as qvwm, fvwm, icewm, jwm, karmen, so on



Which window manager do you prefer to use in Embedded Linux?



I have cross compiled jwm and karmen for Embedded Linux. But when run jwm, karmen, it also ERROR as:



karmen: can't open display



error: could not open display



I think the error is due to display device?



What is the problem?



What should I solve these problem?



Thank you very much.



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You don't have a framebuffer. See if your hardware supports a framebuffer. Then see if your kernel supports a framebuffer. Then read the framebuffer docs to see how to enable it.

Your hardware may not have a framebuffer; I have a machine that only supports SVGA, so it needs a different X server....

--Yan

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Z

Thanks for your answering,but I am using EP9315 chip, it support frame buffer

Also I enable kernel supports a frame buffer

just as linux configure: Graphics support --->

[*] Support for frame buffer devices [*] EP93xx frame buffer support EP93xx frame buffer display (LCD display) ---

( ) CRT display (X) LCD display ( ) NTSC display ( ) PAL display EP93xx frame buffer depth (16bpp true color)

--->

( ) 8bpp pseudo color (X) 16bpp true color [ ] Virtual Frame Buffer support (ONLY FOR TESTING!) Console display driver support --->

[ ] VGA text console [ ] MDA text console (dual-headed) (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] Framebuffer Console support [*] Select compiled-in fonts [*] VGA 8x8 font [ ] VGA 8x16 font [ ] Mac console 6x11 font (not supported by all drivers) [ ] Pearl (old m68k) console 8x8 font [ ] Acorn console 8x8 font [ ] Mini 4x6 font [ ] Sparc console 8x16 font [ ] Sparc console 12x22 font (not supported by all drivers) Logo configuration ---> [*] Bootup logo [*] Standard black and white Linux logo [*] Standard 16-color Linux logo [*] Standard 224-color Linux logo
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