Rick Thomas wrote: > OK, > > I booted from the CD with "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt" > switched to the F2 console when the "choose language" screen came up. > The hardware info you wanted is: > >> ~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep motherboard >> Motherboard: PowerMac3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh >> >> ~# cat /proc/fb >> 0 ATI Radeon QW > > > Then I did: > >> ~# echo "disable-module=linux_input" >>/etc/directfbrc >> ~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk >> ~# debian-installer > > > It crashed when it tried to initialize the graphical installer > > messages read in part (manually typed in -- I don't have any way to > cut-and-paste from the crashed machine...) > >> >> (process:1076): INFO kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8) >> >> (*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing file '/etc/directfbrc' >> >> ----------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 ------------- > > > ... [ stuff snipped to save typing -- let me know if it's important - Rick] > >> (*) Direct/Modules: suppress module 'linux_input' >> (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Keyboard Input' (INPUT, 1104) >> (!!!!) *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_reactor_set_lock] *** [../../../ >> lib/fusion/reactor.c:853] >> (*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmBH) >> (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 1105) >> (*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse 1.0 (Convergence GmBH) >> (*) DirectFB/Graphics: ATI Radeon 7500 (5157) 1.0 (Claudio Ciccani) >> (*) DirectFB/Graphics: Acceleration disabled (by 'no-hardware') >> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: No supported modes found in /etc/fb.modes and >> current mode not supported! >> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Current mode's pixelformat: rgba 8/0, 8/0, 8/0, >> 0/0 (8bit) >> (!) DirectFB/Core/layers: Failed to initialize layer 0! >> --> Initialization error! >> (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'layers' core! >> --> Initialization error! >> (#) DirectFBError [gdk_display_open: DirectFBCreate]: Initialization >> error! >> >> (debconf:1099): Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display:
thanks for the detailed report, this is not a crash, but an error message from DFB because of unsupported pixelformat: directfb people, is there a way to fix this ? thanks Attilio _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
