On 04/09/2015 02:21 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It isn't reverted. All I've done is to add radeonfb.ko to the > drivers that are included *in the installer*.
Yes, I understand that. I still disagree with the change. > Neither radeon.ko nor xserver-xorg-video-radeon are included in > the installer, so how could they possibly be used? If you though > those should be used in the installer, you should have told people > that earlier. I didn't know they weren't included. I assumed that the graphics driver modules are important enough to be present in the installer image. > As it is, I think that the installer should be able to work using > radeonfb.ko and xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, though I'm not sure > whether radeonfb.ko will be loaded automatically. As I have said before [1], radeonfb and xserver-xorg-video-fbdev aren't really working, the graphics are broken. Here's how it looks on a Powerbook G4 (with the same result on a Mac Mini G4) with radeonfb enabled: > http://i.imgur.com/Miw5CR1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/AfpNdx3.jpg > http://i.imgur.com/QBUPwRA.jpg On 04/09/2015 02:24 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > How is that X display in debian installer on PowerPC platform > working for you? I never said it is. I said your suggested fix was wrong. > Your understanding of the consequences of your changes is trully > stellar. So you basically disagree about the graphical installer being broken on all PowerPC machines with Radeon graphics is not an important issue? OK. > Well, I've asked, no one complained until you showed up. The > resulting discussion spreads very interesting scent. I complained because I care about the end product. > Are you sure you want to know about every non-x86 issue I face on > daily basis? If it involves making such important changes to the kernel configuration, then yes. I am a porter for the m68k and sh4 architectures in Debian and also have large numbers of different hardware platforms available to test Debian on, ranging from a 22-year-old Amiga with 68030/50 MHz to an SGI UV-1000 supercomputer, so I can cover lots of use cases and I do lots of testing. On 04/09/2015 08:11 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > Sorry, my reaction to personal attacks was too harsh. Will stick > to technical issues and ignore any personal slurs from now on. That wasn't a personal attack. I was criticizing you for requesting such a change without apparently reading the bug report where I elaborated why I said we should no longer use radeonfb. I have repeated several times that this driver produces broken graphics and I am starting to feel like an idiot having to repeat this over and over again. Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748398#106 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org