Kodi - Unable to create GUI: Exiting

[balanga]

According to https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/kodi

Runtime dependencies:

1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
2. python3.9 : lang/python39
3. x11.pc : x11/libX11
4. xext.pc : x11/libXext
5. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr

When you install kodi, should these dependencies also get installed? Also does kodi require xorg?

After installing Kodi on a pristine 13.2 system I get the Unable to create GUI: Exiting msg. That link does not help as it's for Wndows, but obviously some graphics drivers are missing, although after installing graphics/drm-kmod and x11/xorg, the same error occurred.

What else do I need to install?

 

[SirDice]

You need to start it from within an X session.

 

[balanga]

I found I could run Kodi from twm after running startx, but I would like it to run automatically from startx. I thought I might be able to do that via an 'autostart' function, but don't see anything like this in /usr/local/share/X11/twm/system.twmrc. I suspect there must be some way to autostart programs from twm.

 

[balanga]

This .xinitrc seemed to work:-

k-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session twm
exec kodi

 

[balanga]

Next thing to try and do is boot straight into Kodi without a login prompt.

Is this doable?

 

[YYY__]

Try "sleep 5" before the kodi call or the --standalone parameter.

or

kodi & exec twm

 

[balanga]

Try "sleep 5" before the kodi call or the --standalone parameter.

Seems to work ok with the .xinitrc shown above

 

[balanga]

I'm trying to create a FreeBSD equivalent of LibreElec, and it does seem to involve all that much.

 

[YYY__]

I'm trying to create a FreeBSD equivalent of LibreElec, and it does seem to involve all that much.

Off-topic: Why not a setup script instead of a full "distribution" to run in kiosk mode?

 

[balanga]

Off-topic: Why not a setup script instead of a full "distribution" to run in kiosk mode?

From what I have learned, I only need a basic install of FreeBSD, then install x11/xorg and multimedia/kodi (not yet sure if I graphics/drm-kmod), a simple .xinitrc. Apart from that I need to find out how to bypass the login prompt and run startx automatically.

I'm not really sure what kiosk mode consists of.

 

[YYY__]

Trouble calling 'startx' in Start-Up Script

Hello everyone! This is my first post! I'm trying to set-up a Thin Client that when booted will automatically log into a server for vnc. Right now, I have a bash shell script at /etc/rc.d/thinclient #!/bin/sh echo "thinclient script starting..." SERVER_IP="192.168.1.124"...

forums.FreeBSD.org

Run X11 app at startup, no DE

I'm trying to figure out the proper way to run an X application at boot. I'm trying to run kodi on an htpc. I do not have a desktop environment installed. I can manually run kodi from the terminal with xinit kodi I'm trying to set up a script in /usr/loca/etc/rc.d to do this at startup...

forums.FreeBSD.org

 

[balanga]

After some searching I thought I would need to autologin using /etc/gettytab and came across this post, but I suspect it no longer applies since I can't such an entry in https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/etc/gettytab.

There is an autologin section

#
# autologin - automatically log in as root
#

autologin|al.9600:\
    :al=root:tc=std.9600:
al.19200:\
    :al=root:tc=std.19200:
al.38400:\
    :al=root:tc=std.38400:
al.57600:\
    :al=root:tc=std.57600:
al.115200:\
    :al=root:tc=std.115200:
al.230400:\
    :al=root:tc=std.230400:

but can't figure out how to use it.

gettytab() is pretty cryptic and doesn't really explain how to use it. It's interesting to read that

The termcap(5) format is horrid, something more rational should have
been chosen.

I'd suggest that gettytab is just as bad.