[Splashy-users] splashy and Graphics Card's native fb driver

[Luis]

Ah, good. Talking about that, I'll need to backport 0.9.25 to Sarge.
Let's see how that goes.
For now I'm playing with Splashy 0.1.9 to see if we can fix the
initramfs bug once and for all... sit tight.

On 8/19/06, Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Why are you trying to install libdirectfb-dev from sources? are you
> >using a system based on Sarge/Dapper or anything which has directfb
> >0.9.22 (or below)?
> Yes I am using Sarge system which has directfb below 0.9.22. And I am doing
> this because in one of your earlier post you had suggested me to do it. I
> guess at that time you didn't know that I am using Sarge system.
>
> >Another thing you can do is simply get the binary package from Sid
> >(Splashy). Since Splashy s compiled statically, it should work fine
> >with any (older) system/distribution.
> I tried installing splashy from
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/splashy and the install went
> fine except I got this error upon booting(specifically when the splashy
> client starts) which says something like relocation_error and then some wild
> characters and it was related to glibc. I don't know how to find that error
> message again in the logs so that I can type it to you exactly as it is.
>
>
> Thanks for the effort for looking into this.
>
> Kushal
>
>
>


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