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Bug#637808: installation-report: Graphical Installer doesn't work properly on Acer Travelmate 4740Z



Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com> (14/08/2011):
> I had filed a successful installation report for Acer Travelmate [1] I
> had used text installer for this. But when I tried using the Graphical
> installer for Xfce4 and graphical installer came up with square boxes,
> no readable fonts on the screen. I could find Xorg crash message in
> virtual console (Alt + Ctrl + F1). I couldn't pull out the logs so I
> took photos of error please find them below
> 
> Installer first screen with square boxes [2] [3]
> Xorg Crash message [4] [5]
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636990
> [2] http://silpa.org.in/~vasudev/installer-bug/1.jpg
> [3] http://silpa.org.in/~vasudev/installer-bug/2.jpg
> [4] http://silpa.org.in/~vasudev/installer-bug/3.jpg
> [5] http://silpa.org.in/~vasudev/installer-bug/4.jpg

That doesn't look like a crash. There might be an attempt to start X
with the same display, though, but that's orthogonal to the font issue.

If someone has a virtual machine system handy, trying to locate when the
problem appeared would be nice, e.g. using the dailies.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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