Bug#296735: installation-reports: [sparc] unusable menus in d-i on Sun Blade 1500
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:24:06AM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Matthias Merz wrote:
>
> >>1. What happens if you add a debconf/framebuffer=false boot argument? Does
> >>it affect the problem in any way?
> >
> >That seemed to make no difference, [...]
>
> Sorry for the mistake, the correct boot option to disable the framebuffer
> should be
> debian-installer/framebuffer=false
>
> Could you please try booting with it? I would be very surprised if it
> would not help. We do not currently enable device-specific support for
> Radeon framebuffer and it probably just uses some generic driver, which
> is not doing a very good job... The changes enabling it are about to be
> committed, but it will take a while for them to propagate to the d-i
> images.
Tried it today, but no effect. As far as I can tell there isn't any
framebuffer-support active at this time. Could it be that the
Sun-Console doesn't support UTF-8 in its native mode? Perhaps using
framebuffer might even solve these problems. (just guessing but might
be worth a try...)
Thank you for your time,
Matthias Merz
[will be filing two reports on keyboard (kbd-chooser?) and IDE-Disks
after some playing around with those problems]
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