Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:12:21AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 08:05 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:Yes, it is an Nvidia GeForce card, unfortunately that is what Apple sells with these machines. I'll swap it when I can but for now I'm stuck with it. So, I tried the daily build. It boots fine, but the installer (more likely the fb itself) does not do anything useful with the nvidia card. It just flashes (white) the screen (black background) every few seconds. I can switch to a vt and use the shell, but the screen continues the flash at the same rate.nvidiafb on recent kernels should work fine, as should the X "nv" driver...Well, this is 2.6.14, is this recent enough ? And the problem is not so muchplain fbdev, but the directfb and gtk-directfb layers over it.
Yes, that's true: i had some troubles running DFB apps with DFB 0.9.22/24/CVS with kernel 2.6.14 on my i8x0 laptop and the cause has still to be discovered..
Could you try passing the directfb noaccel option ? not sure exactly how, but Attilio could help you there. This is similar of what happens with atyfb and rage 128 chips. Right now we only had success on the x86 vesafb and radeonfb.
this worked with wolfram's G3 powermac with ATI video card -At boot prompt type install video=ofonly DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newtthis should bootup a fb driver that works on Wolfram's ppc; i'm no ppc expert at all but i know other fb drivers for ppc exists, maybe Sven can give further details about this.
-The debian installer will boot with NEWT frontend: switch to VT2 nd type echo 'no-hardware' >>/etc/directfbrc echo 'screenshot-dir=/' >>/etc/directfbrc export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk debian-installerif everything goes as expected the graphical installer should start using DFB's unaccelerated video driver.
Now you could be able to use the "Stamp" key to take nice screenshots.. :)Since i'm not subscribed to debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org could someone forward this mail there too since may be useful for other users too?
thanks Attilio