Re: [directfb-dev] [g-i] Graphical installer and PPC systems

[Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>]

fiandro@tiscali.it wrote:
> Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> > Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Reading reports about the PPC version of the g-i, it came to my 
> mind 
> > > an old, yet unsolved, bug [1] that caused crashes on PPC boxes 
> with 
> > > some particular grapic cards installed.
> > > No one ever investigated deeply enough to state if that was related 
> to 
> > > DFB 0.9.22 or to the DFB backend contained in GTKDFB 2.0.9 as, 
> AFAIK, 
> > > no one ever tried to run a recent DFB backend togheter with DFB 
> > > > =0.9.24 on a PPC box.
> > > As some PPC users may experience annoying crashes, i suggest to 
> > > disable DFB's hardware acceleration by default, at least until we 
> > > switch to a newer stack of GTKDFB+Cairo+DFB libraries.
> >
> > IIRC it was the Matrox driver or the ATI Rage128, which has been
> > reworked since 0.9.24.
>
> Ok, one more reason to update g-i libraries.
> Dennis, would you suggest to switch directly from 0.9.22 to 0.9.25.1, 
> skipping 0.9.24 ? would that give better stability to the g-i ?

Yes, there have been lots of driver updates.

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Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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