On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:21:27PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Hi > > I just completed a preliminary survey [1] about graphical > debian-installer usability on PPC machines and it turned out that there > are two distinct kinds of issues that currently block PPC users from > using the g-i. > > *Graphical issues: PPC testers always report crashes when hw > acceleration iss enabled, but luckily such crashes can be easily avoided > by disabling hardware acceleration and chip-specific modules, or better > by removing gfxdrivers them from the filesystem. > So, even if not optimal, disabling hw acceleration does the trick and we > can live well.
I'm curious about the mach64 problems at least. But I need someone to tell me more than 'it crashes'. The driver should work (mmio byte swap asm code is included) but I have never tested it because I don't have the hardware. If someone wants to run tests, start with running dfbinfo, and if that works run df_dok. > *Input devices issues: In many cases it turned out that the key to get > DFB running on PPCs is disabling the linux_input module. > Whenever a success was reported (except for PowerBook6,7 IBook's), it > was because the linux_input module was disabled. > We also noticed that many i386 laptop touchpads do not to work properly > when the linux_input module is enabled, and hence the user has to plug > in an USB mouse to use the installer. linux_input is crap is the touchpad is in absolute mode. Fortunately all my laptops have synaptics touchpads which supports relative mode in hardware/firmware. I have though about fixing the problem a couple of times but since my hardware works I haven't had enough motivation :) I was thinking about using tslib for this. -- Ville Syrjälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
