Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-08-21

Hi Adrian,

I burned this installer to DVD and used it to install to a Power Mac G5 Quad. I am happy to report that it ran through successfully and booted up. It was not without a few issues - my chosen desktop manager, sddm, doesn't seem to produce anything, stranding me in X-Windows with just a mouse cursor and nothing else. My selected desktop, KDE, won't start, claiming it can't connect to the X-Server.

Still I manually bludgeoned my way around that, installing the full XFCE4 set of packages and now all is well there. Still no sign of sddm, but startx now comes up to XFCE4.

My only other major issue right now is that while my display seems to run at the right resolution, the color depth seems to be wrong, unless this is an XFCE4 artifact. It LOOKS like it is running 8-bit color, not the 24 bit color my Quadro FX 4500 graphics card is capable of. Since Debian doesn't seem to use xorg.conf anymore, I have not yet found a way to check and adjust this.

Still and all, great work! Thanks for this new installer.

Cheers,
Michael

On August 20, 2025 6:31:21 PM EDT, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hello,

I just created updated Debian Ports installation images based on
kernel 6.12.38. These are using the debian-installer from Trixie.

They can be downloaded from here:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-08-21/

Please test and report back.

Known issues are kernel instabilities on sun4u (sparc64) machines
which are currently being investigated. I will write a separate
mail on the issue.

Adrian

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