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and subject line Bug#1083037: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #342053,
regarding DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers
are used
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Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb
Severity: normal
DirectFrameBuffer by default enables hardware acceleration whenever
possible, this resulted in a DFB crash on many PPC systems [1] .
DFB's HW acceleration should be disabled at runtime for those fb drivers
that are known to be actually broken.
Detection of used framebuffer module can be done after boot by checking
kernel's output, while DFB's HW acceleration can be turned off by adding
"no-hardware" to runtime configuration file "/etc/directfbrc" [2].
The user should always be able to force HW accelaration off at boot time
with an ad-hoc parameter.
As a temporary workaround for bugs like [1] this has proven to
occasionally work
-Boot the graphical-installer with
install video=ofonly DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
-Let the NEWT frontend appear, switch to VT2 and type
echo 'no-hardware' >>/etc/directfbrc
echo 'screenshot-dir=/' >>/etc/directfbrc
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
debian-installer
if everything goes as expected the graphical installer should start
using DFB's unaccelerated video driver and you should be able to use the
"Stamp" key to take screenshots
Attilio Fiandrotti
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00011.html
[2] http://www.directfb.org/docs/directfbrc.5.html
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Version: 1.7.7-13+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package directfb has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1083037
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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