[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Enable xserver-xorg for all qemumachines

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 05/08/2012 03:18 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Khem Raj<raj.khem at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Saul Wold<sgw at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
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>>>> Khem,
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>>>> Not sure what I am doing differently, but I am not getting the xserver
>>>> to
>>>> start on at least ppc and mips (two that I tried just now).
>>>>
>>>> Are you build a Yocto sato image or oe-core sato image?
>>>>
>>>> I get the following on a ppc:
>>>>
>>>> Fatal server error:
>>>> no screens found
>>>> xinit: giving up
>>>> xinit: unable to connect to X server: No such file or directory
>>>> xinit: server error
>>>>
>>>
>>> hmmm I have booted core-image-sato but I have bare OE-Core
>>> Do you have
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>>> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/commit/?h=kraj/qemu-xserver-xorg&id=8a60dabb7902b7be42d06cb735e96248e2e67dba
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>>> is some layer on top changing it in some way ?
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>> hmmm another think I have is this patch
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>> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/commit/?h=kraj/misc&id=955dee621361e01627ebfde152f25873070cf301
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>> which deletes kdrive recipes. I did not propose it for inclusion yet
>> but I wonder if there is any mix and match happening when these
>> recipes are not deleted.
>> You can cherry-pick it and see if that helps.
>>
> So I found that task-core-x11.bb also sets XSERVER
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> XSERVER ?= "xserver-kdrive-fbdev"
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> And this was being picked up it seems when I did the build.
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> I commented that line out and it worked correctly.
>
> That seems wrong, since I thought the ??= should not allow the ?= to
> override, or do I have it backwards?


I think that was the real problem why my ??= was not working thanks
for finding it out. I have gone ahead and posted a v2 of this patch
series which should now
work out better.

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> Sau!
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