On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:37:28AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Last times the g-i was tested on PPC, it turned tout that > > Known good : radeonfb, vesafb (or whatever x86 uses). > Known bad : atyfb, nvidiafb > > when acceleration was enabled. > But that was with GTKDFB 2.0.9 and DFB 0.9.22, while now we have DFB > 0.9.25 and GTK 2.8.20 and many bugs got fixed. > This is the most serious bug affecting g-i on PPC, and i wasn't able to > fix it because i have no PPC HW. > Sven, do you think can give the PPC g-i a try? i will help you on > debugging it as much as i can.
Ok, i gave a quick test, and discovered the following : (hardware is a pegasos machine, with radeon 9250 graphic card). I did a plain g-i from unstable build, and netbooted the vmlinuz-chrp.initrd file. It booted nicely, but ended up in a blue screen, i suppose these are the symptoms of the crash. I thus rebuilt the installer with adding : no-hardware screenshot-dir=/ (is this one still needed ?) to /etc/directfbrc, as explained in a post from december 2005 in this bug report. This one booted fine, and the only problem i could see, is shown in the following picture : http://people.debian.org/~luther/languagechooser_language-name_0.png As you can see, there is a white space where the selection should be, this works fine when you use the mouse to point on stuff, but using up/down arrow keys exhibits this behaviour rather consistently. The last issue i saw when going to the consoles with ctr+alt+Fn to investigate a bit. The console font is garbagy, but this is probably a bug in either the radeonfb driver, or the enter/leave-VT functions of directfb. When you kill the X server from the console, this happens also. Ok, that is all for now, i will propose a patch later on which always enables no-hardware on powerpc, so we can at least get some testing done, and then would be happy to do some more advanced debuging to tackle the bug and/or also the console font issue. Friendly, Sven Luther > > Attilio > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]