Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-03 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
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 car

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
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 0

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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=

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
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. > >> > >

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
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

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
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

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
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 selecti

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
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=r

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
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,

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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 bui

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
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. > >

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
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 li

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
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

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
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 reall

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
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. Friendl

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
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 par