-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > many video cards simply aren't supported by > vesafb, so we implemented a sw fallback to the textual frontend for > those cases.
Hmm, I suspect some fallback are not strictly related to the driver. I just tried today to boot the i386 daily netinst on a Intel Core 2 Duo machine and it (kind of) fell back to a messy text interface (starting directly into newt looked and behaved a lot better). OTOH, the daily businesscard amd64 image booted fine and intiated correctly the graphical interface. (I intended to submit a BR, but this seems related). The graphics card is an ATI Radeon Mobility X1400. > My question is: why this mechanism, which is provided starting from > rootskel 1.47 and rootskel-gtk 1.02 did not work for Roy? > Roy, could you please test today's miniiso [1] and see if you're brought > to a textual interface by just pressing <enter> at boot prompt? I am still wondering if a true fallback to the newt interface should be implemented or, if that can't be done reliably, a message saying something like: "The video card in your system seems not to be compatible with the graphics driver used in the graphical environment in D-I. You will have to restart the installation in text mode" restart - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFovpRY8Chqv3NRNoRAi4XAKCZzxAKIBJA+tpBl7fa0dgMnRE2SQCbBe7S wB84dcmORi3L8bW/o2OvTVk= =CzES -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]