Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
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Today i had the chance to test the g-i on my friend's laptop, who
yesterday reported g-i crash and swapped fb0 fb1 devices (actually he
owns a GeForce 6200 Go)
I repeated the test using the very same ISO as yesterday and, this time,
vesa was correctly mapped fb0 and g-i booted successfully.
We tried many times both cold and warm-booting, after X had started, but
could not reproduce the crash nor the fb0/1 swap.
Note that yesterday's crash happened even if fb1 was sait to be vesa and
"fbdev=/dev/fb1" was set in directfbrc.
Hence, i believe it's safer patching the S60frontend script so that the
GTK frontend, on i386 and AMD64, is started iff fb0 is vesa.
A patch for rootskel which supersedes previous one for rootskel-gtk is
attached, but please verify correctness of line
if [ subarch=="i386/generic" ] || [ subarch=="amd64/generic" ] ; then
I wanted to test this patch, but as i don't have I82810 board i
simulated vesafb failure by removing "video=vesa ..." from isolinux.conf
with a test miniiso and the patch did its work.
I so built a miniiso [1] including the patch: Fabrice now you should
able to boot this iso and automatically fallback to the classical
textual interface.
In the syslog a line should exist saying "Vesa fb not found, graphical
frontend disabled ...".
cheers
Attilio
[1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_vesa_check.iso
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