Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:56:06PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07)

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac 3,5 with the Radeon video

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:10 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Did you enter export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk or DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk before running debian-installer? In the latter case, the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable simply may not have been made visible to debconf, try again with export ... before

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- white during selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. I am uploading the images i

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:48:50AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- white during selection, broken font

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:48:50AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:48:50AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- white during

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Package: rootskel Severity: normal Tags: patch As it results from the PPC survey [1], the linux_module DirectFB input module should be disabled for all ppc boxes except for MacIntosh model PowerBook6,7. Also, the radeon

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: snip/ Attilio, your patch seems broken, you probably need : +if grep -v PowerBook6,7 /proc/cpuinfo ; then Thanks for Eddy for finding out this one. As discussed with you and eddy on IRC, i updated the patchfile. Attached to this file you'll find the entire patchfile for

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz QuickSilver tower with ATY Rage128 graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's not gone away completely. Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is using

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:09PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz QuickSilver tower with ATY Rage128 graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's not gone away completely. Normal, your aty

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac 3,5 with the Radeon video card. /proc/cpuinfo=

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Package: rootskel Severity: normal Tags: patch As it results from the PPC survey [1], the linux_module DirectFB input module should be disabled for all ppc boxes except for MacIntosh model PowerBook6,7. Also, the radeon gfxdriver, a relatively new gfxdriver in DirectFB, showed to be broken

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: One question about this patch ? Why not simply the lines to the directfbrc file, instead of adding them and then uncomenting them ? Apart from that, this patch seems good to me, will now test it and provide feedback.

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
About the sed -i thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of the installer, as frans suggested. I guess it's also simpler asking a tester to uncomment a single line instead of adding a line by hand, which could lead to typos and unreliable test results, when debugging the g-i. I really

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:31:05PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: About the sed -i thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of the installer, as frans suggested. Ok. I guess it's also simpler asking a tester to uncomment a single line instead of adding a line by hand, which

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:31:05PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: About the sed -i thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of the installer, as frans suggested. Ok. I guess it's also simpler asking a tester to uncomment a single line instead of adding a

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

2006-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:04:12AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:31:05PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: About the sed -i thing, this is to keep coherency with other parts of the installer, as frans suggested. Ok. I guess it's also