Does NGhost require ICEPANEL to run ?

**cato2006** · 07-20-2009, 05:13 AM

Can anyone advise wether ICEPANEL is actually needed to get an output on NGhost, I have compiled NGhost and Libnghost sucessfully, Icepanel I cant get compiled.

I have read through the posts on this forum but cannot quite wrk out whether Icepanel is a nice to have or a mandatory component.

All advice welcome :-)

**tripzero** · 07-20-2009, 06:39 AM

icepanel is not mandatory. It's useful when you are using apps other than nGhost (ie, navigation) and still want to pause/play music, etc.

check out how it can be used:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWuQeUH7dMA[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txWMfzY8wnk[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndrZLqpom0[/media]

What errors do you get?

**cato2006** · 07-20-2009, 07:18 AM

Thanks for the quick response.

When NGhost is run I see a failure to connect to ICEPANEL and the X session shows a flat black screen.

Im going to take a guess that this may have something to do with the options chosen whilst installing SDL ?

**tripzero** · 07-21-2009, 12:54 AM

Yes, there is something wrong. Make sure sdl has png support built in.

**cato2006** · 07-22-2009, 07:01 AM

OK, will do that now and report back on success / failure. Thanks Kev, appreciated.

**cato2006** · 07-22-2009, 07:15 AM

PNG enabled in SDL

OK ran nscan -l4 then nghost and piped the results to a file.
Nghost came up as a black screen. Any ideas ?

Log read

07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:NOTICE - nghost.conf not found in ~/.nghost. Now looking in /etc/nghost/.
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - found config nghost.conf at /etc/nghost/
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:NOTICE - nscan.conf not found in ~/.nghost. Now looking in /etc/nghost/.
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - found config nscan.conf at /etc/nghost/
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:INFO - server address: 0.0.0.0
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - searching for libnghostdownload.so
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - settings.cpp:get_plugin_dir(127) - Failed to find 'libnghostdownload.so'
found: /usr/lib/nghost//libnghostdownload.so
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:INFO - Loading plugin '/usr/lib/nghost//libnghostdownload.so'
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:WARNING - populate.cpp:SearchDir(60) - Failed to create the artgrabber plugin
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - searching for libsqlitedatabase.so
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - settings.cpp:get_plugin_dir(127) - Failed to find 'libsqlitedatabase.so'
found: /usr/lib/nghost//libsqlitedatabase.so
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:INFO - Loading plugin '/usr/lib/nghost//libsqlitedatabase.so'
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:NOTICE - Using db/db-file: /root/.nghost/NGhost
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - searching for libsqlitequery.so
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - settings.cpp:get_plugin_dir(127) - Failed to find 'libsqlitequery.so'
found: /usr/lib/nghost//libsqlitequery.so
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8:INFO - Loading plugin '/usr/lib/nghost//libsqlitequery.so'
07/22/2009 13:10:18 GMT-8

EBUG - Populate: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ListboxSettings` (`id` INTEGER UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT,`name` VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL,`alphapos` INTEGER UNSIGNED,`listposition` INTEGER UNSIGNED,`current_filter_index` INTEGER UNSIGNED,`filter_value` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`))
07/22/2009 13:10:24 GMT-8:INFO - NSocket: Incoming connection detected. Negotiating contact...
07/22/2009 13:10:24 GMT-8

EBUG - NSocket: id received: id:nghost
07/22/2009 13:10:24 GMT-8:INFO - NSocket: Identified Plugin...nghost
07/22/2009 13:10:24 GMT-8:INFO - NSocket: Connection complete from: 127.0.0.1