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03-12-2003, 10:20 PM
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Installing Qt/Embedded
Hi,
I have some problems with installing Qt/Embedded.
I have followed the installation procedure porvided by Tolltech.
However, there is an instruction to enable the Linux frame buffer at /dev/fb0
How can I do that?
Please advice.
I'm running Red Hat Linux 8.
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03-12-2003, 11:00 PM
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QT/Embedded is for hand held/pdas only, for redhat on a pc you need qt-x11-free.
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03-12-2003, 11:58 PM
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Yes,
but I have also read that I can develop applications with Qt/Embedded on a desktop first and then port it over to a handheld.
Need advice to enable Linux frame buffer.
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03-13-2003, 12:41 AM
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Well, the frame buffer is a kernel option.
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03-13-2003, 01:01 AM
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How do I enable the frame buffer then?
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03-13-2003, 01:10 AM
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Most distro's have it enabled by default, but we don't know what distro you use because you havn't filled out all your details.
<----over there.
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03-13-2003, 01:17 AM
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Hi,
I'm using Red Hat Linux 8.0 on a pentium 4 computer.
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03-13-2003, 01:33 AM
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Redhat should have the frame buffer already. Do you have kde installed? If you do then QT will be installed already.
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03-13-2003, 01:44 AM
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Yes, I have selected "install everything" option when I was installing Red Hat Linux 8.
I have also install the Qt package according to the installation instruction. However, when I try ./start_demo I do not get any response.
The installation instruction do mention that I need to enable the frame buffer.
How do I check that?  |
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03-13-2003, 01:56 AM
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Ok, Have a look at the Framebuffer-HOWTO. |
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03-13-2003, 02:21 AM
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Ok, I have selected the depth to be 32 when I was installing Qt/Embedded.
I'm using a ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card with a NEC MultiSync LCD monitor.
When I try to start Qt, nothing happens....
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03-13-2003, 03:09 AM
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Help Help...SOS
this is really puzzling. I have followed according to instructions and yet when I type
cd /examples/launcher
./start_demo
nothing happens????.....
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03-13-2003, 11:02 PM
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Hi,
Ok, I have changed to the KDE desktop settings. When I click on "start_demo" under examples/launcher, I get a "Couldn;t find program" prompt.
What should I do?
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03-13-2003, 11:19 PM
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Open a console, change to the demo directory and do "./demo"
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03-13-2003, 11:38 PM
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Ok, done that...but I get another problem.
I was prompt "Cannot open frame buffer device dev/fb0
:cannot detect driver"
Please assist
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