Re: GTK DFB frontend updated testcase
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:23:58PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, except vesafb is non-available on non-x86, and as i am a powerpc guy.
> >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..
I would be interested in that, where are the sources of the stuff needed for
it ? I would include them in a netboot initrd locally or something.
Do you work out of the d-i svn repo or something else ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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