>The driver modules usually get installed when you do "make DESTDIR=/foo/bar
install".
>
>
>Without an accelerator, using the frame buffer device, you don't need a
graphics
>driver module. But in most cases you'd like to have input at least, though
you could
>have your own way of receiving input on a device, if you just run one
application
>which is written for it.


I am not trying to install the graphics drivers which is why I used
with-gfxdrivers=none and we have no inputs on the system except for some
push buttons, so input drivers are not required.  

>If you copied over the libraries manually, you also need to copy the
following directory:
>
>       /usr/lib/directfb-1.1-0

I Copied this directory over, but neither gfxdrivers nore inputdrivers
folders are listed there.  These are the commands I used to configure and
build:

./configure --disable-sdl --disable-osx --disable-x11 --disable-mmx
--disable-sse --disable-vnc
--disable-video4linux --with-gfxdrivers=none --with-inputdrivers=none
--disable-sysfs --disable-network --disable-jpeg --disable-zlib
--prefix=/usr
--host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux --build=-i686-redhat-linux-gnu

Make

Make install prefix=/opt/arcom/arm-linux/usr  (I wanted to use just
/opt/arcom/arm-linux/ here but I got too many complaints when trying to make
install - requires me to do a little tweaking when compiling directfb
applications).

Make install-strip DESTDIR=/tmp/directfb  <<this is so I can zip it all up
and copy it over to the target board.


>For a user interface you should have a look at LiTE, Disko or GTK+, while
the first
>one has the least overhead, but also the least features at the moment. It's
merely
>an engine for writing your own widgets on top of DirectFB, but there is a
growing
>number of base or example widgets incorporated.
>
>       http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Platform%2FLiTE
>
>It's the base UI library behind the "lightweight DirectFB windowing system
[that] sets a new
>standard of responsiveness and simplicity for mobile Linux" as said by
David Beers after evaluating
>the Palm Foleo.
>
>
http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main%2FNews&entry=2007-09-18-0.dok

As for the UI, I am not looking for anything fancy.  I need to display some
graphs, and some other information such as the time and system information
with a few other messages.  This will be the only graphic application
running full screen 100% of the time and it will take its inputs from a few
push buttons. Is it still recommended to look into LiTE and those other
ones?



V/R,
--Bryan



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