Re: GTK DFB frontend updated testcase

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:05:31PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > it's been a while since my last post on this ml: i'm actually pretty 
> > busy whiting docs for my thesis, but i'm also preparing a demo of the 
> > graphical debian-installer i'd to share with you.
> > I've removed, for graphical reasons, the main-menu hack (and non latin 
> > fonts too for space reasons) and added a debian logo and it runs in a 
> > dfb environement (after cjw last fixes the frontend appears stable 
> > enough to complete installations even witk DFB backends).
> > You can grab the tgz archive at
> >
> > https://debian.polito.it/downloads/d-i_dfb.tar.gz
> >
> > to play with this frontend follow instructions that can be found at
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00892.html
> >
> > if you use an etch netinst cd remember to:
> >
> > - type install24 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 at boot prompt
> > - the archive name is now d-i_dfb.tar.gz
> > - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk instead of export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Gtk
>
>
> BTW, i am wondering if this will work with real real fbdev devices also, and
> not just vesa ones (like the radeonfb used on most powerpc based boxes).

usually dfb works fine even with non vesa fb drivers (on my matrox g400, 
at least... :) anyway i think that vesafb should enough for what the gtk 
frontend needs to do.

> I would be happy to test this, altough i will use the powerpc netboot images,
> but i guess the above is not really integrated in the main build yet, right ?

this is an i386 experimental testcase, it would be interesting if 
someone could prepare a gtk dfb/X testcase for powerpc archs: as far as 
i know the gtk frontend han never been yet tested with non-i386 archs..

ciao

atilio