Xfbdev fails with "no screens found"

Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE awg at embtoolkit.org
Mon Apr 11 12:55:27 PDT 2011


On 04/11/2011 10:01 AM, Dushara Jayasinghe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use Xfbdev on an embedded linux device with a monochrom LCD display. However, the command returns the following error:
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> I have the device nodes for the framebuffer device (/dev/fb0). On closer inspection of the code, it seems this error is generated because screenInfo.numScreens has not been initialised. But I can't work out where this parameter gets set.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Using xserver_xorg-server-1.7.5
> with kdrive/fbdev

Hello,
does the following command line, before starting Xfbdev, fixes the issue:
export DISPLAY=:0

Regards,
AWG
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