Re: powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 23:53 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:01:17PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > What framebuffer is used ? atyfb probably ?
> >
> > I don't really know. I used video=ofonly but it doesnt help.
> > I can login on terminal 4, and it seems that there are no fb module (at
> > least find /lib/module/2.6.16-powerpc-1 -name '*fb*' outputs nothing.
> >
> > I have a /dev/fb0
>
> What does dmesg say, and also what is the content of /proc/fb. My powerbook
> says :
>
> $ more /proc/fb
> 0 ATI Radeon Lf
0 OFfb ATY,264LTP
1 OFfb ATY,264LTP
>
> > > I believe that this one is builtin in the kernel, it used to be at
> > > least. Can
> > > you check that ?
> > >
> > > Basically, there is two possibilities of it failing :
> > >
> > > 1) the framebuffer device is not builtin, and cannot be found as
> > > module.
> >
> > how can I check I check if framebuffer is builtin ?
>
> Read the dmesg output, and see what it says. Check /proc/fb too. Check the
> .config file.
dmesg says nothing about framebuffer. The .config is the one used when
generating powerpc gtk installer, don't know where to find it.
>
> Or alternatively give us the lspci output corresponding to your graphic card,
> and the kernel version used, and i will investigate for you.
Linux 2.6.16-1-powerpc
lspci isn't very verbose at the moment because there are only "unknown
devices".
I'll reinstall a debian on it without the gtk installer to have those
informations.
>
> > > 2) the graphical frontend doesn't know how to deal with builtin
> > > framebuffer
> > > devices.
> > >
> > > What strikes me at odd though, is that if you are having output, then
> > > you
> > > already have a framebuffer device, and thus there is a problem around
> > > 2).
> > > MAybe it tries to loade vesafb, or something such.
> >
> > dmesg | grep fb outputs nothing useful
>
> Ah, this is suspisious. At least offb and radeonfb are builtin, and either
> should report a fb-greppable string. Maybe dmesg did overflow ?
Possible yes, I'll try a restart before reinstalling
--
Yves-Alexis Perez
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