[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Problems running the SDK

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 5/29/05, Daniel Alonso <dalonso at apanoia.net> wrote:
> Hi People,
> 
> I'm very interested in this project and I've tried to install scratchbox
> and the Maemo SDK in a gentoo box. All the installations steps work as
> detailed in the install guide, but when I try to execute the Application
> Framework Environment with "af-sb-init.sh start" I get the following
> errors. The GUI loads but with an empty task launcher and clicking in
> Home produces the abort of sapwood-server.

These symptoms indicate that you are probably running it at 24bits,
but only 16bit display mode is supported. I hope the tutorial etc
could highlight this more, it's a very common error. And note that
Xnest doesn't do 16bits if the "host" server is at 24bits.

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi