Showing posts with label Arm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arm. Show all posts

Saturday, August 9, 2008

X on fedora-arm

Im trying to get Xserver running on fedora-arm for some time to test GUI applications that i compile for arm . I didn't have that much experience with yum. I have used fedora-5 for 6 monthsand then shifted to ubuntu. I tried "yum groupinstall "X Window System"", but it didn't work as it supposed to so i have to manually select the xorg packages i have to install to get X windows running. Here is the list of packages i installed
xorg-x11-xauth
xorg-x11-apps
xorg-x11-xinit
xorg-x11-utils
xorg-x11-server-utils
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev
xorg-x11-drv-vga
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus
xorg-x11-fonts-misc
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
xorg-x11-twm

I don't exactly know what to install and what not from above; Im just making trail and error. twm is the minimistinc window-manager. u can also install fluxbox. Remember if u issue startx it will start twm, if u want to start fluxbox instead of twm edit the xinitrc file.

Fedora-arm distribution on qemu


Qemu can emulate almost every processor. You can emulate a arm processor on qemu and install fedora-arm linux distribution on it. Look at this link for further details on how to setup.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu .
and here is repo whr u can get arm rpm packages
http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/arm/os/Packages/
It has an gcc 4.1.2 arm5vtel installed in it, so u can compile applications and test for arm, But the compilation is very slow, On my core2duo 2.13 GHz it took one and half day to compile gcc-4.2.2. :-/ .
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