Re: powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> What framebuffer is used ? atyfb probably ?
I don't really know. I used video=ofonly but it doesnt help.
I can login on terminal 4, and it seems that there are no fb module (at
least find /lib/module/2.6.16-powerpc-1 -name '*fb*' outputs nothing.
I have a /dev/fb0
I've tried to look at scripts run by debian-installer
in /lib/debian-installer.d
S35 test debconf-get debian-installer/framebuffer to output "true", but
it's not the case on this powerbook.
>
> I believe that this one is builtin in the kernel, it used to be at
> least. Can
> you check that ?
>
> Basically, there is two possibilities of it failing :
>
> 1) the framebuffer device is not builtin, and cannot be found as
> module.
how can I check I check if framebuffer is builtin ?
>
> 2) the graphical frontend doesn't know how to deal with builtin
> framebuffer
> devices.
>
> What strikes me at odd though, is that if you are having output, then
> you
> already have a framebuffer device, and thus there is a problem around
> 2).
> MAybe it tries to loade vesafb, or something such.
dmesg | grep fb outputs nothing useful
>
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Yves-Alexis Perez
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