Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:56:06PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
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> > 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",
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> 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
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