hi!
sorry for the late answer, i was really busy this week.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Attilio Fiandrotti" <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>
To: 400898@bugs.debian.org, masc@operamail.com, banerian@u.washington.edu, Fabrice.Lorrain@univ-mlv.fr
Subject: More informations needed to fix this bug
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:37:24 +0100
Dear all
We suspect the crash you reported are due to vesafb and vga16fb
framebuffer devices started somehow in wrong order.
To check that, i ask you to boot a graphical installer miniiso [1] with
install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
This will boot the installer with the classical textual frontend.
Now, switch to VT2 and write down on a piece of paper the output of
ls -la /dev/fb*
/dev/fb
drwxrwxrwx .
drwxrwxrwx ..
crw-rw---- 1 root root 29, 0 Dec 9 14:26 0
cat /proc/fb
0 VGA16 VGA
It would be also useful having the syslog: you can switch back to
the installer and select "Save debug logs" and select one of the
options available (note that to save the installation logs via web
you need to first configure network so that the installation
machine can be reached from the outside :)
i wasn't able to use the usbstick nor the ethernet (just have wlan), but i wrote the fb-specific lines by hand:
[... (between cpu stuff)]
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[...]
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[...]
bye...martin.