o install-gui-benh works, except for the colors, which are still
wrong.
I'm trying to remember. Did we try different bit depths on you machine
for install to see if the color issue was corrected? If we can narrow
down the machine ID, I could force an appropriate bit depth if that is
the
needed fix.
No, changing the bit depth didn't correct the colors. Here's what I
wrote about it on Jan 11:
I've tried with 16, 15 and 8, and the colors are different every time,
but still wrong. 15 gives the most readable display. With 8, the
colors are dithered, but so to speak before the color distortion is
applied, so the result is multicolored noise that makes the text
almost unreadable.
I can't really explain this to myself, since I have examined the
XF86Config file generated by the installer and have found no
fundamental difference to the one that works fine on my installed
system. The XFree86 log doesn't show anything insightful (at least to
me) either.
I didn't test 24 or 32 at that time because it wasn't supported by XF86.
o I chose the radeon X driver and 1280x854 in 24bit, testing the
configuration works, and after the testing, the colors in the
installer
are right!
Interesting. I wonder what triggered that? There is a stage2
installer
image on my web space, that has a newer X built into it, if you are
setup
to be able to test an ftp install (You don't need to do a full install,
just see if the GUI comes up correctly).
That works! The colors are right.
...
Hmm - I patched in the gatos drm into -4mdk, hoping it would help your
DRI
issue. Sounds like it broke other things. Maybe I should roll it
back.
DRI is not really important for me - it's rather a toy factor. And as
it doesn't work with 4mdk either, I'd rather have sleeping and console
switching back. And XFree86 has made great progress with respect to
radeon compatibility in the last weeks, so I expect to have it working
eventually anyway.
Sound works with the benh kernel?
Yes.
Thanks
-Christian
