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Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:12:21AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 08:05 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Yes, it is an Nvidia GeForce card, unfortunately that is what Apple
>>>sells with these machines. I'll swap it when I can but for now I'm
>>>stuck with it.
>>>
>>>So, I tried the daily build. It boots fine, but the installer (more
>>>likely the fb itself) does not do anything useful with the nvidia
>>>card. It just flashes (white) the screen (black background) every few
>>>seconds. I can switch to a vt and use the shell, but the screen
>>>continues the flash at the same rate.
>>
>>nvidiafb on recent kernels should work fine, as should the X "nv"
>>driver...
>
>
> Well, this is 2.6.14, is this recent enough ? And the problem is not so much
> plain fbdev, but the directfb and gtk-directfb layers over it.
Yes, that's true: i had some troubles running DFB apps with DFB
0.9.22/24/CVS with kernel 2.6.14 on my i8x0 laptop and the cause has
still to be discovered..
> Could you try passing the directfb noaccel option ? not sure exactly how, but
> Attilio could help you there. This is similar of what happens with atyfb and
> rage 128 chips. Right now we only had success on the x86 vesafb and radeonfb.
this worked with wolfram's G3 powermac with ATI video card
-At boot prompt type
install video=ofonly DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
this should bootup a fb driver that works on Wolfram's ppc; i'm no ppc
expert at all but i know other fb drivers for ppc exists, maybe Sven can
give further details about this.
-The debian installer will boot with NEWT frontend: switch to VT2 nd type
echo 'no-hardware' >>/etc/directfbrc
echo 'screenshot-dir=/' >>/etc/directfbrc
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
debian-installer
if everything goes as expected the graphical installer should start
using DFB's unaccelerated video driver.
Now you could be able to use the "Stamp" key to take nice screenshots.. :)
Since i'm not subscribed to debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org could
someone forward this mail there too since may be useful for other users too?
thanks
Attilio
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