Install DirectFB on Raspbian

[MEmerton]

Hi guys,

I am trying to install DirectFB http://directfb.org/ onto my fresh pi installation of Raspbian.

I am following these instructions: http://directfb.org/raspbian/README

I get as far as "sudo insmod fusion.ko"

I have used "wget http://www.directfb.org/raspbian/fusion.ko" before issuing this command.

however I now get:

Error: could not insert module fusion.ko: Invalid module format

I can see that others have got this working, and so would appreciate any help

Kind regards

Michael

[MEmerton]

Or does anyone have a better install script?

[MEmerton]

Alternatively, does anyone know of an alternative graphics library which I can call from C, without starting X?

I would need to be able to plot bitmaps.

I am new to C and linux programming, as my roots are in RISC OS with BASIC.

Cheers

[ghans]

Perhaps OpenVG / OpenGL ES ?

http://github.com/ajstarks/openvg


ghans

[AndyD]

If you are interested in using python you could try pi3d. I haven't used it myself, but it looks very interesting. The README says it can do 2D and 3D rendering.

[paddyg]

Michael,

Don't know if you've sorted this or what exactly you mean by plot bitmaps. Pi3d can open bitmap files and display them as 2D layers (the Pillow python imaging library can open bmp with header size 12, 40, 64 not the larger ones) but would not be ideal for plotting graphic primitives to a bitmap. Python is probably less of a traumatic move from BASIC than C would be!