Re: Bug#341597: [ppc,d-i-gtk] installation report on b&w G3

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Wolfram Quester wrote:
> Hi alltogether,
>
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:18:40AM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:46:50PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > Mmm, this is a rage 128, not sure if it will have enough memory, or if 
> > > > > the
> > > > > corresponding fbdev is broken or something.
> > > > >
> > > > > Attilio, do you perhaps have some program linked with the .deb 
> > > > > libraries, that
> > > > > the user could run to test under normal circunstances ? This would make
> > > > > debugging somewhat easier maybe.
> > > >
> > > > this is what i got on directfb-dev from andi@fischlustig.de (thanks!) 
> > > > after forwarding wolfram's post
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------
> > > > I recommend to disable hw acceleration on ppc systems. At least for now.
> > >
> > >
> > > Oh well, we should fix it instead, whatever it is :)
> >
> > Wolfram, could you please try again to boot with newt fontend and, after 
> > switching to VT2, do
> >
> > echo 'debug' >>/etc/directfbrc
> > echo 'no-hardware' >/etc/directfbrc
> > echo 'screenshot-dir=/' >>/etc/directfbrc
> > export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
> > debian-installer
> >
> > this should let us know if the bug goes away if hw aceleration is 
> > disabled, and you can also take screenshots by pressing "stamp" key.
>
>
> I booted "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt" and did as recommended above.
> And it worked! Well, there seems to be an endianess bug in the coloring,
> which you can see in the attached screenshot. I did not try to finish
> the installation today, perhaps I'll try next week.

Super-cool! :)
It seems here you're still running into bug 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338191
and that the initial vesa mode was set to 1024x768 instead of 800x600.

So far, we ve stated that

-PowerPC specific: the kernel must get passed "video=ofonly vga=788" 
(wolfram, could you please test with this additional kernel parameter too?)

-Achitecture indipendent: The following lines should be added to 
/etc/directfb for compability sake and to allow to taking screenshots

no-hardware
screenshot-dir=/

If some other PPC user has time for some testing, could he confirm the 
g-i still works on their computers using new kernel parameters and 
/etc/directfbrc options?

I would also know from DFB experts if there is a /etc/directfb option 
that prevents multibyte-colour PNGs from being trashes as seen in 
Wolfram's screenshot (this seems to be an endianess-related issue).

thanks

Attilio


Thanks