Help on running Xfbdev (ARM processor)

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Aug 21 22:59:39 PDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:12:59AM +0530, Prashant J Zaveri wrote:
> I have cross-compiled Xfbdev for ARM9 core and want to run it on a
> board powered by Freescale's i.MX21 processor and running Kernel
> Vanilla 2.6.22 with a few board-specific patches. When I run Xfbdev, I
> get a few errors like the following:
> 
> "Could not init font path element
> /home/prashant/xorg/modular/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!"
> 
> While compiling, I used prefix = /home/prashant/xorg/modular so that I
> get the binaries and libraries in "modular" directory. I later
> transferred these to /usr/lib or /usr/bin as necessary on the Linux
> root file system.
> 
> In my understanding, it should have picked up the font files from
> /usr/lib but it is searching in a path that I gave during build. Why
> is this? What do I need to provide during build so that it looks into
> proper path while running?

prefix means 'you will be installed in this base'.  DESTDIR means 'when
you run make install, put the files into this base, but when you get
run, it will be from prefix'.

Cheers,
Daniel
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