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Re: etch graphical installer does not work on G5 PowerMac?



Shyamal Prasad wrote:
"Sven" == Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:


    Sven> Could you try passing the directfb noaccel option ? not sure
    Sven> exactly how, but Attilio could help you there. This is
    Sven> similar of what happens with atyfb and rage 128 chips. Right
    Sven> now we only had success on the x86 vesafb and radeonfb.

Hi,

Sorry for the wide distribution - enclosed below is Attilio's
instructions for the unaccelerated driver copied to debian-powerpc as
he requested.

I attempted what Attilio suggests with Sven's Dec 2 daily build.

When I start debian-installer from the command line I get a flash on
my screen and I'm back to the shell prompt (<aha> so now I know d-i is
just repeatedly restarting when I boot with the default front end
</aha> :)

Looking in dmesg I see (copied by hand)

ioctl32(debconf:1129) Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(00004700){00} arg(0f394e70) on /dev/fb/0
One such line is written each time I start d-i.

It means nothing to me, but I suspect some one out there might be able
to tell if this information helps?


hi

some times ago i found the strace [1] tool to be very useful to debug such kinds of DFB crashes (broken readings of redirected IO in my case). strace is already packaged into udeb and will tell you what the graphical frontend does before crashing when you attach it to the debconf process.

Attilio

[1] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/strace/



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