Help on running Xfbdev (ARM processor)

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Wed Aug 22 13:42:46 PDT 2007


Prashant J Zaveri wrote:
> Thanks,
>            I did that but it is not able to open the default font file
> i specified. Is there any other parameter missing.

I suggest you use strace or some other debugging tool to find out where
Xfbdev is looking for its fonts, so that you can install them in the
right place. (Normally this directory can be configured by the
--with-fontdir= option in configure).

> 
> On 8/22/07, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr> wrote:
>> Prashant J Zaveri wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> While compiling font library it executes font-util (ucs2any) binary.
>>> So how to Cross-compile font libraries as we cannot execute
>>> cross-compiled font-util binary ?
>>>
>>> On 8/22/07, Prashant J Zaveri <pjz1607 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have provided default font path and and default font to Xfbdev using
>>>> -fp and -fn parameters.When I run Xfbdev, I get following error msg:
>>>>
>>>> "could not open default font '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf' "
>>>>
>>>> How to cross-compile fonts library to run on ARM ?
>>>>
>> You don't need to "cross-compile" fonts for an embedded system. Just
>> generate them on your host and transfer the resulting font directories
>> to your target.
>> --
>> Matthieu Herrb
>>
> 
> 


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Matthieu Herrb



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