[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#418708: marked as done (installation-reports: Dialogs difficult to use on gray-scale monitors)

Your message dated Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:12 +0000
with message-id <E1Ou7iq-0004gR-4d@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #418708
has caused the Debian Bug report #418708,
regarding installation-reports: Dialogs difficult to use on gray-scale monitors
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org
immediately.)


-- 
418708: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418708
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message --- 
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: network
Image version: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current//images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz, build date 2007-03-10
Date: 2007-04-10

Machine: x86, DFI K6BV3+, AMD K6-II/450, 320 MB RAM, 9" grayscale monitor, Matrox G200
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [E]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:

Some dialogs like "Software selection" and "Download installer components"
are difficult to use, as they have no visible selection bar or cursor on my
gray-scale monitor. This is true for both framebuffer and text mode console.

The only way of navigating these dialogs is by blindly scrolling or moving
the cursor up and down and then hitting the space bar to toggle an item to
see where the invisible cursor is.

On the installed system (text mode), running "tasksel" with different values
for the TERM variable results in:

  # echo $TERM
  linux
  # tasksel               # cursor invisible
  # TERM=vt320 tasksel    # cursor invisible
  # TERM=vt220 tasksel    # cursor visible
  # TERM=vt100 tasksel    # cursor visible
  # TERM=vt52 tasksel     # dialog completely unusable (lines shifted etc.)

Maybe it would help if the installer would ask whether there is a color,
gray-scale or monochrome monitor attached (just like my old SuSE 7.x did)
and set the TERM variable (or whatever is evaluated by dialog/tasksel/
whatever during and after the installation, respectively) to something
appropriate.


(Bug occurs on a sytem other than the one I use for reporting it, so no
hardware info here)

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
We are closing this bug report against debian-installer 
for one of the following reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the bug report give the feeling that
  the reported problem was lying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

--- End Message ---
Reply to: