Bug#792540: Wifi netinstall fails with flashing screen on Lenovo X220

2015-07-16 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2015-07-15 23:47, Steve McIntyre wrote: > regularly on various X220 machines for *ages* and never seen this. Is > there anything special at all about your SD card? Is the machine > locked, or can you get to logs? I'm so much used to a perfectly working d-i, that I didn't even remember the 4th c

Bug#792540: Wifi netinstall fails with flashing screen on Lenovo X220

2015-07-16 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2015-07-16 05:48, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Are you using the text mode installer or the graphical installer? Text mode. > There's no X in the former, You are right, it is not X. Something else that makes the screen flash. Flashing frequency is about 2 Hz, way to fast for failing X :~) I can s

Bug#792540: Wifi netinstall fails with flashing screen on Lenovo X220

2015-07-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 - d-i Hi, W. Martin Borgert (2015-07-16): > I tried to install Jessie on a Lenovo X220 using netinst on USB > flash drive, without Ethernet connection, but with the non-free > iwlwifi drivers .deb on an SD card (either internal slot or USB > adaptor). > > After the very early st

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Bug#792540: Wifi netinstall fails with flashing screen on Lenovo X220

2015-07-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:27:22AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >Package: debian-installer >Version: debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso >Severity: important >Tags: d-i > >I tried to install Jessie on a Lenovo X220 using netinst on USB >flash drive, without Ethernet connection, but with the non-free

Bug#792540: Wifi netinstall fails with flashing screen on Lenovo X220

2015-07-15 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Package: debian-installer Version: debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso Severity: important Tags: d-i I tried to install Jessie on a Lenovo X220 using netinst on USB flash drive, without Ethernet connection, but with the non-free iwlwifi drivers .deb on an SD card (either internal slot or USB adaptor).

Re: Flashing screen

2004-12-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:50:54AM -0800, Eric wrote: > I downloaded my debian "woody" images using jigdo and > burned them to CD. when I try to start the install, > right after "probing pci hardware" is shown my screen > flashes on and off at approximately half second > intervals. I am running a C

Flashing screen

2004-12-12 Thread Eric
I downloaded my debian "woody" images using jigdo and burned them to CD. when I try to start the install, right after "probing pci hardware" is shown my screen flashes on and off at approximately half second intervals. I am running a Compaq Deskpro p2 400mhz desktop. I have a Matrox Millenium g200

Re: [solved] flashing screen madness

2001-12-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 03:58:15PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I think I've fixed all the flashing screen madness, special thanks to > David Kimdon. The problem was in one case a desync between libraries > we build with and libraries used for the rootdisk; in another case I

Flashing screen

2001-12-12 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I built the b-f (checked out this morning from CVS) and still get the flashing screen effect. I've tried with and without USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER. Any ideas? make check didn't fail. There was make clean. This is on i386 and on an up-to-date SID system (compiling

Re: flashing screen, 3.0.18 blocked

2001-12-10 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:16:55PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > So what's the status on this now? Is anybody still suffering from the > "flashing screen" syndrome, or has that finally been laid to rest? > > Jordi, did changing to the non-utf8 libraries fix your

Re: flashing screen, 3.0.18 blocked

2001-12-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 21:16:55 + Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what's the status on this now? Is anybody still suffering from the > "flashing screen" syndrome, or has that finally been laid to rest? I've checked the boot-floppies on ~aph,

Re: flashing screen, 3.0.18 blocked

2001-12-07 Thread Philip Blundell
So what's the status on this now? Is anybody still suffering from the "flashing screen" syndrome, or has that finally been laid to rest? Jordi, did changing to the non-utf8 libraries fix your problem with the Catalan disks? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: flashing screen, 3.0.18 blocked

2001-12-06 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Di Carlo writes: >Ah! We should check for this in make check what should that link >be pointing to ? I think it says in the bug report. Something like libnewt.so.0.50 from what I remember. It's probably good enough just to check that it points to a fil

Re: flashing screen, 3.0.18 blocked

2001-12-06 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:25:41PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > #121893 is still outstanding, and would cause these symptoms. Check your > > symlink is correct. > Ah! We should check for this in make check what should that link > be pointing t

Re: flashing screen, 3.0.18 blocked

2001-12-06 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Di Carlo writes: >No I get the same thing. This is definately blocking. > >I think I may have to turn off i18n to get this working again. Or else >is there any fix for this? Wasn't this the libnewt issue? #121893 is still outstanding, and would cause these s

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: >will it be international over serial? is it supposed to be? Ah, good question. I think the answer is probably that i18n should be disabled for serial, since we don't necessarily have control of the terminal's character set. Whether

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:59:29PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > >i'm testing the installer now. should it have asked about language? > > No, the reiserfs flavour isn't i18n enabled. The only ones that will > give you a choice o

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: >i'm testing the installer now. should it have asked about language? No, the reiserfs flavour isn't i18n enabled. The only ones that will give you a choice of language are compact, idepci and udma100-ext3. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > >there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building. > > > >this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial. > > Right, yeah, I think I see the problem.

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <20011201130314.A29232@Obsession>, Chris Tillman writes: >PowerPC should also be 16MB. Neither the installer nor an installed >system will boot on 8MB RAM. By the time the installer is booted, >meminfo reports over 10M used. After a minimal (no X) complete system is >booted, meminfo rep

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: >there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building. > >this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial. Right, yeah, I think I see the problem. Can you try this patch to dbootstrap and see if it helps? p. Index: main.c

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:46:15PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > i am rebuilding, after a make distclean (not sure what that is going to > buy me, other than a lot more network usage, as .deb's get downloaded) same error. i even tried the root.bin version. i verified that /etc/messages

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:05:30AM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > > Problem > > > > An error occured while loading application messages. > > > >that is further than i got before. > > If you haven't

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > Problem > > An error occured while loading application messages. > >that is further than i got before. If you haven't done "make clean" recently, try that and then rebuild. Otherwise, you may

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:55:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > > I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly. > > Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is installed, and libnewt-pic is not. H

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly. > Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is installed, and libnewt-pic is not. Having > both of them is probably bad news. libnewt-pic

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth writes: >On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:08:11PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: >> Can you check that you don't have any trace of non-UTF8 libslang, libnewt >> or anything like that on your system? >Hmmm, libnewt-dev installs a /usr/lib/libnewt.so symlink

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:08:11PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > Can you check that you don't have any trace of non-UTF8 libslang, libnewt > or anything like that on your system? Hmmm, libnewt-dev installs a /usr/lib/libnewt.so symlink hardwired to libnewt.so.0.50.17 Not good. I'll try to rebui

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch writes: >Of course an updated CVS snapshot, few days ago. Please try the very latest version and let us know whether the problem is still there. >As said, the dialog boxes are broken, parts of the lines disappear when >non-ASCII characters are there.

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Philip Blundell wrote on Fri Nov 30, 2001 um 09:09:52PM: > >de language, the rest of lines is cut away when a non-ASCII character > >appears. Looks ugly. > > Do you mean you are using the 3.0.17 stuff from the archive, or the current > code from CVS? Of course an updated CVS snapsho

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch writes: >stuff? Sorry, I did not work on BFs for some time, now I tried the >current snaphost and was scared! The boxes have no borders, when using >de language, the rest of lines is cut away when a non-ASCII character >appears. Looks ugly. Do you mea

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth writes : >I could try that. > >But the vanilla flavor will want four driver floppys, I really like to avoid >this. Right, yeah. I just meant "does dbootstrap start with the other flavours", but from what John Robinson says the answer is no. >Are t

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include John H. Robinson, IV wrote on Fri Nov 30, 2001 um 12:38:22PM: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:41:51PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > > Are you running on a machine with fbcon enabled? (If you see a penguin on the >screen during bootup, you have fbcon.) > > > > Do the vanilla or rei

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:41:51PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > Are you running on a machine with fbcon enabled? (If you see a penguin on the >screen during bootup, you have fbcon.) > > Do the vanilla or reiserfs flavours work any better? i tried with reiserfs, and i get the flashing als

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth writes : >dbootstrap simply segfaults right at the start. It does not do this >if run in a running system. Mmm. I was seeing this the other day, but then the problem just seemed to go away on its own. Are you running on a machine with fbcon enable

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:38:29PM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > I build i386 bootdisks from current cvs and tried the idepci floppies > for an install. After booting and inserting the root floppy I get a blue > screen then its cleared to black again then blue ... (running it again, this time wi

Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I build i386 bootdisks from current cvs and tried the idepci floppies for an install. After booting and inserting the root floppy I get a blue screen then its cleared to black again then blue ... Switching to another console doesn't help, same effect there. Switching to console 3 for error messag