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Re: Did not manage to start the graphical installer on an iMac G5



On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:41:46PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> >On 12/7/05, Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I tried the latest graphical installer (december 7), but it failed to
> >>start the graphical system. Here is a sample of the logs:
> >>
> >>kernel: ioctl32(debconf:1234): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(0004700){00} 
> >>arg(0f394e70) on /dev/fb/0
> >>
> >>It is repeated with a different pid, so obviously the graphic system
> >>crashes on startup and is respawned...
> >
> >
> >Probably -boot is the best place to talk about this.
> >
> >Sven, Attilio, Davide, any hints?
> >
> 
> Charles,  your crash seems very similar to one reported on this m-l some 
> times ago: have you already tried this? [1] did it work ?
> Ah.. this reminds me that automatic HW acceleration disabilitation for 
> broken fbdev drivers has still to be done; Sven, any progress on this?

I confirm that he has nvidia graphics, and thus the problem is indeed the
right one. About progress, i have zero time for any debian related work until
january, so it is best you see this with someone else before. The patches you
proposed are mostly ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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