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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: cortman on July 12, 2012, 04:28:37 PM

Title: Can't run fbterm
Post by: cortman on July 12, 2012, 04:28:37 PM

Having gotten gnu screen functioning, my next step was to install and run fbterm. I downloaded all the .tcz packages from the repository on a different computer and copied them to /tce/optional. I made sure to get all dependencies. I can run

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tce-load -i fbterm
And it will load without a problem; it also loads libx86, Xorg-7.6-lib, gpm, expat2, and fontconfig. These all load fine. When I run "fbterm" though, I get the following message:

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fbterm: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I searched the TCZ repository for libfreetype, but with no results.
How can I get this working?

Title: Re: Can't run fbterm
Post by: Rich on July 12, 2012, 04:58:13 PM

Hi cortman
It is in  Xlibs.tcz.

Title: Re: Can't run fbterm
Post by: cortman on July 13, 2012, 12:05:08 AM

Quote from: Rich on July 12, 2012, 04:58:13 PM

Hi cortman
It is in  Xlibs.tcz.

Perfect; thanks a lot! That fixed that. But now I'm having other problems.
After loading fbterm and dependent extensions, I can start it with "fbterm". About half the time it will start (I suppose, because it changes- text size gets smaller, and the text is really poor- half the lines are missing- pretty much illegible) and half the time it will simply tell me

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stdin isn't a interactive tty!
Also, when I do get it to run (at least make the text illegible) there's a warning at the top that I can barely make out- something like

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can't change kernel keymap table all characters will NOT work! see SECURITY NOTES ----- man page ----------
I've checked and confirmed that /dev/fb0 exists, otherwise I'm stumped.
Thanks in advance.