Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:48:50AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > >I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i
> > >confirm
> > >that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on-
> > >white during
> > >selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way.
> > >
> > >I am uploading the images i built to http://people.debian.org/
> > >~luther/g-i so
> > >we others can test. I will do an announcement on debian-powerpc now.
> >
> > When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with
> > "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's
> > not gone away completely.
>
> Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is
> using the aty rage128, and thus the white-on-white problem is not gone for
> you.
>
> Can you check which graphic driver you are using, and submit a modification of
> attilio's patch so you also disable the aty-rage128 driver ?
Or rather add an entry to the table at :
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIToDo#head-11fd68e1908215eeafcecd3f30b04cb11aaa2448
BTW, do you confirm that the PowerMac3,5 is still "no way to make it work" ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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