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

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

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
> 
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> 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