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

["Mike Emmel" <mike.emmel@gmail.com>]

I think a lot of the issues were actually 64 bit stuff thats recently been fixed
any chance you could try 25.1 ? or a cvs build just to see.
I believe the problems were down in the directfb layer so it would be
nice to know if its there or higher up in gdk/cairo. What we really
need is a commited developer with a PowerPC to trace this down thats
the main problem.

Mike


On 5/24/06, Eddy Petrişor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/24/06, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it> 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.
>
> You are wrong, this what I have wasted the frist day on during the
> Extremadura meeting. Unfortunately it was ... well ... wasted.
>
> > 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.
>
> I could try to make some time to create an image with the gtk
> 2.8+patches and see if it works if you can provide me the source
> package for that.
>
> Looking again at the report and seeing Sven's and your messages I see
> I can't test that on my laptop.
>
> --
> Regards,
> EddyP
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