Bug#394615: graphical installer fail on intel i810 chipset

[Fabrice LORRAIN <Fabrice.Lorrain@univ-mlv.fr>]

Attilio Fiandrotti à écrit :

> [...cut...]
> This is the second report we receive about DFB failing initializing
> because of an unsupported video format.
>
> Fabrice, could you please try doing this
>
> -boot textual , configure network so that you can reach hosts on the
> internet and then switch to VT2 and do the following
>
> - cd /etc/
> - wget --no-check-certificate
> https://debian.polito.it/downloads/fb.modes
> - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
> - debian-installer
>
> this should force DFB to change the pixel format at inizializtion
> time:
> does the installer start corectly now?
>
> cheers
>
> Attilio

Hello Attilio,

I gave a try and there is some improvement :

FYI, wget in busybox doesn't support --no-check-certificate, but I
managed to get your fb.modes file.

After :
# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
# debian-installer

I got a white screen which seems to be in fbmode (no warning, no error).
But just after, the text installer is coming back.

Any other tests I should do ?

@+,
	Fab