Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
Package: rootskel Severity: normal Tags: patch As it results from the PPC survey [1], the linux_module DirectFB input module should be disabled for all ppc boxes except for MacIntosh model PowerBook6,7. Also, the radeon gfxdriver, a relatively new gfxdriver in DirectFB, showed to be broken partially or totally in many cases, so a safe choice is disabling it by default for Radeon-based boards. The attached patchfile updates directfbrc file in rootskel-gtk and adds a new script to rootskel to take care of directfb specific issues. I won't commit this by myself, but i'll wait for someone to review it and apply. cheers Attilio [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIToDo Index: rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc === --- rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (revisione 41145) +++ rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (copia locale) @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ no-hardware screenshot-dir=/var/log -#disable-module=linux_input #needed for touchpads to work +#disable-module=linux_input +#disable-module=radeon Index: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc === --- rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc (revisione 0) +++ rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc (revisione 0) @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#disabling radeon DFB module for all radeon-based cards +if grep "Radeon" /proc/fb; then + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=radeon/disable-module=radeon/" /etc/directfbrc +fi + +#disabling linux_input DFB module except for "PowerBook6,7" +if grep "PowerBook6,7" /proc/cpuinfo ; then + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=linux_input/disable-module=linux_input/" /etc/directfbrc +fi Index: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile === --- rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile(revisione 41155) +++ rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile(copia locale) @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),powerpc) files += \ - S45keyboard-linux-powerpc + S45keyboard-linux-powerpc \ + S50directfb-linux-powerpc endif ifneq (,$(filter mips mipsel,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU)))
Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: One question about this patch ? Why not simply >> the lines to the directfbrc file, instead of adding them and then uncomenting them ? Apart from that, this patch seems good to me, will now test it and provide feedback. Friendly, Sven Luther > Index: rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc > === > --- rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (revisione 41145) > +++ rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (copia locale) > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ > no-hardware > screenshot-dir=/var/log > -#disable-module=linux_input #needed for touchpads to work > +#disable-module=linux_input > +#disable-module=radeon > > > Index: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc > === > --- rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc > (revisione 0) > +++ rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc > (revisione 0) > @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ > +#disabling radeon DFB module for all radeon-based cards > +if grep "Radeon" /proc/fb; then > + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=radeon/disable-module=radeon/" > /etc/directfbrc > +fi > + > +#disabling linux_input DFB module except for "PowerBook6,7" > +if grep "PowerBook6,7" /proc/cpuinfo ; then > + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=linux_input/disable-module=linux_input/" > /etc/directfbrc > +fi > Index: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile > === > --- rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile(revisione > 41155) > +++ rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile(copia locale) > @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ > >ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),powerpc) > files += \ > - S45keyboard-linux-powerpc > + S45keyboard-linux-powerpc \ > + S50directfb-linux-powerpc >endif > >ifneq (,$(filter mips mipsel,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU))) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
About the "sed -i" thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of the installer, as frans suggested. I guess it's also simpler asking a tester to uncomment a single line instead of adding a line by hand, which could lead to typos and unreliable test results, when debugging the g-i. I really hope this is enough to make g-i work on all those machines where a success was reported after tweaking properly directfbrc. Attilio Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: One question about this patch ? Why not simply >> the lines to the directfbrc file, instead of adding them and then uncomenting them ? Apart from that, this patch seems good to me, will now test it and provide feedback. Friendly, Sven Luther Index: rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc === --- rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (revisione 41145) +++ rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (copia locale) @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ no-hardware screenshot-dir=/var/log -#disable-module=linux_input #needed for touchpads to work +#disable-module=linux_input +#disable-module=radeon Index: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc === --- rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc (revisione 0) +++ rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc (revisione 0) @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#disabling radeon DFB module for all radeon-based cards +if grep "Radeon" /proc/fb; then + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=radeon/disable-module=radeon/" /etc/directfbrc +fi + +#disabling linux_input DFB module except for "PowerBook6,7" +if grep "PowerBook6,7" /proc/cpuinfo ; then + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=linux_input/disable-module=linux_input/" /etc/directfbrc +fi Index: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile === --- rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile(revisione 41155) +++ rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile(copia locale) @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),powerpc) files += \ - S45keyboard-linux-powerpc + S45keyboard-linux-powerpc \ + S50directfb-linux-powerpc endif ifneq (,$(filter mips mipsel,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU))) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:31:05PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: About the "sed -i" thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of the installer, as frans suggested. Ok. I guess it's also simpler asking a tester to uncomment a single line instead of adding a line by hand, which could lead to typos and unreliable test results, when debugging the g-i. I really hope this is enough to make g-i work on all those machines where a success was reported after tweaking properly directfbrc. I strongly suggest you to upload a version of the packages including those changes, and then do a call for tester on debian-powerpc. Of especial interest would be testers with nvidia graphic cards, since we don't yet have feedback for those. As soon as this patch gets committed and new PPC ISOs are available, a new round of tests on PPCs would be possible and desirable. I really hope we'll be able to release a decent g-i for PPCs.. by the way, do we have testers for AMD64 too? cheers Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:48:50AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- white during selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. I am uploading the images i built to http://people.debian.org/ ~luther/g-i so we others can test. I will do an announcement on debian-powerpc now. When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's not gone away completely. Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is using the aty rage128, and thus the white-on-white problem is not gone for you. Can you check which graphic driver you are using, and submit a modification of attilio's patch so you also disable the aty-rage128 driver ? Rick, IIUC your mails you should have three different PPC boxes for testing *Powermac3,5 This is the model already listed in the PPC survey wiki page with you as tester. It's currently marked red (nogo), but your last test was not performed with Sven's patched ISO: could you please try again booting Sven's ISO and update results in the PPC survey page in the case of a success? *PowerMac3,4 This is not listed yet in the PPC survey page yet, but you said you managed to make it work with a littke tweaking, right? Could you report in PPC survey page how you got this working? In the case you want to disable the ATI128 directfb accelerator, you'll have to add to your directfbrc file disable-module=ati128 *PowerMac1,1 This is not listed yet in the PPC database: i don't know what DFB accelerator (if any) matches that video chip, but you may try this -boot textual -rm -rf /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/gfxdrivers -try the graphical drontend with both linux_input enabled and disabled For all the three test machines you own, could you please add/update corresponding entries to the PPC database in the wikipage? This will be useful to know what works and what don't and so need further debugging. thanks a lot Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Package: rootskel > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > As it results from the PPC survey [1], the linux_module DirectFB input > module should be disabled for all ppc boxes except for MacIntosh model > PowerBook6,7. > Also, the radeon gfxdriver, a relatively new gfxdriver in DirectFB, > showed to be broken partially or totally in many cases, so a safe choice > is disabling it by default for Radeon-based boards. > The attached patchfile updates directfbrc file in rootskel-gtk and adds > a new script to rootskel to take care of directfb specific issues. > I won't commit this by myself, but i'll wait for someone to review it > and apply. > > cheers > > Attilio > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIToDo > > --- > 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. > > Index: rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc > === > --- rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (revisione 41145) > +++ rootskel-gtk/src/etc/directfbrc (copia locale) > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ > no-hardware > screenshot-dir=/var/log > -#disable-module=linux_input #needed for touchpads to work > +#disable-module=linux_input > +#disable-module=radeon > > > Index: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc > === > --- rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc > (revisione 0) > +++ rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc > (revisione 0) > @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ > +#disabling radeon DFB module for all radeon-based cards > +if grep "Radeon" /proc/fb; then > + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=radeon/disable-module=radeon/" > /etc/directfbrc > +fi > + > +#disabling linux_input DFB module except for "PowerBook6,7" > +if grep "PowerBook6,7" /proc/cpuinfo ; then > + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=linux_input/disable-module=linux_input/" > /etc/directfbrc Attilio, your patch seems broken, you probably need : +if grep -v "PowerBook6,7" /proc/cpuinfo ; then Thanks for Eddy for finding out this one. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
Sven Luther wrote: Attilio, your patch seems broken, you probably need : +if grep -v "PowerBook6,7" /proc/cpuinfo ; then Thanks for Eddy for finding out this one. As discussed with you and eddy on IRC, i updated the patchfile. Attached to this file you'll find the entire patchfile for both rootskel and rootskel-gtk, even if only S50directfb-linux-powerpc was actually updated. As soon as a new test image is ready, i'll ask a PowerBook6,7 owner to test it. thanks Attilio Index: src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc === --- src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc(revisione 0) +++ src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S50directfb-linux-powerpc(revisione 0) @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#disabling radeon DFB module for all radeon-based cards +if grep "Radeon" /proc/fb; then + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=radeon/disable-module=radeon/" /etc/directfbrc +fi + +#disabling linux_input DFB module except for "PowerBook6,7" +if [ -z "$(grep "machine.*:.*PowerBook6,7" /proc/cpuinfo)" ]; then + sed -i "s/^#disable-module=linux_input/disable-module=linux_input/" /etc/directfbrc +fi Index: src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile === --- src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile (revisione 41155) +++ src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile (copia locale) @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),powerpc) files += \ - S45keyboard-linux-powerpc + S45keyboard-linux-powerpc \ + S50directfb-linux-powerpc endif ifneq (,$(filter mips mipsel,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU))) Index: src/etc/directfbrc === --- src/etc/directfbrc (revisione 41145) +++ src/etc/directfbrc (copia locale) @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ no-hardware screenshot-dir=/var/log -#disable-module=linux_input #needed for touchpads to work +#disable-module=linux_input +#disable-module=radeon
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:31:05PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > About the "sed -i" thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of > the installer, as frans suggested. Ok. > I guess it's also simpler asking a tester to uncomment a single line > instead of adding a line by hand, which could lead to typos and > unreliable test results, when debugging the g-i. > I really hope this is enough to make g-i work on all those machines > where a success was reported after tweaking properly directfbrc. I strongly suggest you to upload a version of the packages including those changes, and then do a call for tester on debian-powerpc. Of especial interest would be testers with nvidia graphic cards, since we don't yet have feedback for those. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:04:12AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:31:05PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > > > >>About the "sed -i" thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of > >>the installer, as frans suggested. > > > > > >Ok. > > > > > >>I guess it's also simpler asking a tester to uncomment a single line > >>instead of adding a line by hand, which could lead to typos and > >>unreliable test results, when debugging the g-i. > >>I really hope this is enough to make g-i work on all those machines > >>where a success was reported after tweaking properly directfbrc. > > > > > >I strongly suggest you to upload a version of the packages including those > >changes, and then do a call for tester on debian-powerpc. > > > >Of especial interest would be testers with nvidia graphic cards, since we > >don't yet have feedback for those. > > As soon as this patch gets committed and new PPC ISOs are available, a > new round of tests on PPCs would be possible and desirable. > I really hope we'll be able to release a decent g-i for PPCs.. by the I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on-white during selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. I am uploading the images i built to http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i so we others can test. I will do an announcement on debian-powerpc now. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- white during selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. I am uploading the images i built to http://people.debian.org/ ~luther/g-i so we others can test. I will do an announcement on debian-powerpc now. When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's not gone away completely. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:48:50AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i > >confirm > >that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- > >white during > >selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. > > > >I am uploading the images i built to http://people.debian.org/ > >~luther/g-i so > >we others can test. I will do an announcement on debian-powerpc now. > > When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with > "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's > not gone away completely. Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is using the aty rage128, and thus the white-on-white problem is not gone for you. Can you check which graphic driver you are using, and submit a modification of attilio's patch so you also disable the aty-rage128 driver ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:48:50AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > >I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i > > >confirm > > >that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- > > >white during > > >selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. > > > > > >I am uploading the images i built to http://people.debian.org/ > > >~luther/g-i so > > >we others can test. I will do an announcement on debian-powerpc now. > > > > When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with > > "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's > > not gone away completely. > > Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is > using the aty rage128, and thus the white-on-white problem is not gone for > you. > > Can you check which graphic driver you are using, and submit a modification of > attilio's patch so you also disable the aty-rage128 driver ? Or rather add an entry to the table at : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIToDo#head-11fd68e1908215eeafcecd3f30b04cb11aaa2448 BTW, do you confirm that the PowerMac3,5 is still "no way to make it work" ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's not gone away completely. Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is using the aty rage128, and thus the white-on-white problem is not gone for you. Can you check which graphic driver you are using, and submit a modification of attilio's patch so you also disable the aty-rage128 driver ? Happy to do... Can you tell me how to check which graphic driver it's using? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:09PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >>>When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with > >>>"ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's > >>>not gone away completely. > >> > >>Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using > >>whatever driver is > >>using the aty rage128, and thus the white-on-white problem is not > >>gone for > >>you. > >> > >>Can you check which graphic driver you are using, and submit a > >>modification of > >>attilio's patch so you also disable the aty-rage128 driver ? > > Happy to do... > > Can you tell me how to check which graphic driver it's using? /proc/fb is the one of interest here, but i would just disable them unconditionally. I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac 3,5 with the Radeon video card. /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,5 [69 (PowerMac G4/733MHz Silver)] lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] /proc/fb= 0 ATI Radeon QW When I did "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ; debian-installer", I got dropped into the text mode installer with the error message: "Framebuffer not available. Disabling graphical frontend." I tried it with all combinations of enable/disable of "linux_input" and "radeon", with the same results. I also tried it on another machine with ATI Rage128 graphics card /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,1 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS /proc/fb= 0 ATY Rage128 I only did this one with both disables in place (unmodified /etc/ directfbrc file). It also gave me the same error message about "Framebuffer not available" and dropped me in the text mode installer. Is it possible that this image is broken in some fundamental way? Hope this helps! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:56:06PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. > > I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ > powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac > 3,5 with the Radeon video card. > > /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,5 [69 (PowerMac G4/733MHz Silver)] > lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] > /proc/fb= 0 ATI Radeon QW > > > When I did "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ; debian-installer", > > I got dropped into the text mode installer with the error message: > "Framebuffer not available. Disabling graphical frontend." > I tried it with all combinations of enable/disable of "linux_input" > and "radeon", with the same results. > > > > I also tried it on another machine with ATI Rage128 graphics card > > /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,1 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) > lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS > /proc/fb= 0 ATY Rage128 > > I only did this one with both disables in place (unmodified /etc/ > directfbrc file). > > It also gave me the same error message about "Framebuffer not > available" and dropped me in the text mode installer. > > Is it possible that this image is broken in some fundamental way? huh ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac 3,5 with the Radeon video card. /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,5 [69 (PowerMac G4/733MHz Silver)] lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] /proc/fb= 0 ATI Radeon QW When I did "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ; debian-installer", I got dropped into the text mode installer with the error message: "Framebuffer not available. Disabling graphical frontend." I tried it with all combinations of enable/disable of "linux_input" and "radeon", with the same results. I also tried it on another machine with ATI Rage128 graphics card /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,1 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS /proc/fb= 0 ATY Rage128 I only did this one with both disables in place (unmodified /etc/ directfbrc file). It also gave me the same error message about "Framebuffer not available" and dropped me in the text mode installer. Is it possible that this image is broken in some fundamental way? looking at /proc/fb dumps, the framebuffer must have been nitialized correctly. Did you enter "export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" or "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" before running debian-installer? In the latter case, the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable simply may not have been made visible to debconf, try again with "export ..." before running debian-installer and let's see if this works. cheers Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:10 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Did you enter "export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" or "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" before running debian-installer? In the latter case, the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable simply may not have been made visible to debconf, try again with "export ..." before running debian-installer and let's see if this works. My bad. My brain knew what it had to do, but the message didn't make it all the way to my fingers! In any case, the results of doing it again (right, this time) [on the PowerMac3,5 with Radeon] are attached. No change, as far as I can see. Hope it helps! Rick error_messages4 Description: Binary data error_messages3 Description: Binary data error_messages2 Description: Binary data error_messages1 Description: Binary data configuration Description: Binary data
