On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:22:48AM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > 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.
Attilio, do we have those included in the directfb .udeb ? The best would be to either add them, or create a new debug .udeb with these tools. Ville, are there more such test tools which we can include in the debug package and include in the d-i images ? > > *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. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
