Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:48:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
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> >On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:01:15PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> >>OK. I have a G4 PowerMac with
> >>
> >>0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
> >>RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]
> >
> >Should work flawlessly with the current daily-builds.
> >
> >Friendly,
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> >Sven Luther
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> Hmmm....
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> Maybe I'm not getting the current daily-build?
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> On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:34 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
> >On Sunday 24 September 2006 10:17, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>Is there an iso I can burn with the necessary stuff on it? I'm not
> >>set up to do netbooting at this moment.
> >
> >There is only an iso. Look for gtk-miniiso under powerpc/powerpc64:
> >http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/daily/
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> So I went there and found
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> >Index of /~wouter/d-i/powerpc/daily/powerpc/gtk-miniiso
> >Name Last modified Size Description
> >
> >Parent Directory 18-Sep-2006 22:16 -
> >initrd.gz 25-Sep-2006 22:34 9.7M
> >mini.iso 25-Sep-2006 22:45 15.3M
> >vmlinux 25-Sep-2006 22:45 3.8M
> >vmlinuz-chrp.initrd 25-Sep-2006 22:56 11.1M
> >
> >Apache/1.3.33 Server at people.debian.org Port 80
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> and from which I downloaded and burned the mini.iso
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> I booted from the CD and got repeating crashes when it tried to
> initialize the graphical installer
>
> messages read in part (manually typed in -- I don't have any way to
> cut-and-paste from the crashed machine...)
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> > ----------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 -------------
> >...
> > (!!!!) *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_reactor_set_lock] *** [../../../
> >lib/fusion/reactor.c:853]
> >...
> >
> >(*) DirectFB/Graphics: ATI Radeon 7500 (5157) 1.0 (Claudio Ciccani)
> >(*) DirectFB/Graphics: Acceleration disabled (by 'no-hardware')
> >(!) DirectFB/FBDev: No supported modes found in /etc/fb.modes and
> >current mode not supported!
> >(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Current mode's pixelformat: rgba 8/0, 8/0, 8/0,
> >0/0 (8bit)
> >(!) DirectFB/Core/layers: Failed to initialize layer 0!
> > --> Initialization error!
> >(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'layers' core!
> > --> Initialization error!
> >(#) DirectFBError [gdk_display_open: DirectFBCreate]:
> >Initialization error!
> >
> >(debconf:1609): Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display:
> >(process:1641): INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode
> >(UTF-8)
> >(*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'
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> Is there a different mini.iso ?
Oh, well.
I said should, but i guess i am wrong on this one.
Attilio, this is another data point for this, can you try the tricks eddy
tried, and reported success for ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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