Bug#341597: [ppc,d-i-gtk] installation report on b&w G3

2005-12-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:59:59PM +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: miniiso with graphical installer daily build from Sven Luther Image version: http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/gtkdi/images/2005-12-01/powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso

Bug#341880: Users should be allowed to take screenshot of the g-i

2005-12-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
to d-i bugreports: this would be very useful especially when bugreports are about bad/ugly non latin fonts. See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00106.html and follow-ups for further details Attilio Fiandrotti -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

2005-12-04 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
;>/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

Bug#341880: Bug #341880: Proposed modifications to rootskel-gtk and installation-report packages

2005-12-10 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi To allow users to take screenshots of the g-i, an "/etc/directfb" file containing "screenshot-dir=/var/log" should be provided by the "rootskel-gtk" package. Also, some modifications to the "httpd" web server from "installation-report" package are needed to make the user able to distinguis

Bug#342053: Boot-time script to disable DFB's HW acceleration

2005-12-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
This script should disable DFB's harware acceleration for those vesa drivers whose accelerated modes are known to be broken. I think this script should be named something like "Sxxdisable_dfbhw.sh" and should be installed into /lib/debian-installer.d and provided by rootskel-gtk package. Since t

Bug#342053: Boot-time script to disable DFB's HW acceleration

2005-12-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:38:10AM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: This script should disable DFB's harware acceleration for those vesa Those are no vesa drivers, but fbdev drivers :) Vesa is only vesafb, the others are the real thing :) ok, now it's c

Bug#343244: GTK frontend shortcuts should be documented

2005-12-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
tcuts: this could help a lot in reporting issues related to bad rendering of complex / non latin fonts. Attilio Fiandrotti [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00315.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#343244: GTK frontend shortcuts should be documented

2005-12-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Davide Viti wrote: "Stamp" is the (Italian) equivalent of "PrtSc" or whatever is written on the key which is meant to "Print Screen" Davide is right: i forgot that was an italian translation for , sorry.. Ah, do macintosh and other systems different from IBM PC AT also have this key on their

Bug#346206: Problem booting on IBM RS6000 7043-B50

2006-01-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
데이터텍 wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: CD > Image version: debian-31r1a-powerpc-netinst.iso , 2005-12-24 > debian-31r0a-powerpc-netinst.iso , 2005-6-7 Date: Since 2006-1-2 I have been > trying installation for IBM RS6000 B50 machine. > > Machine: IBM RS6

Bug#341054: Patch proposal

2005-12-31 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
I've just modified the GTK frontend so that if rescue/enable is true then rescue/info is displayed in the top-left corner of the window, over the "Debian" banner. Please tell me if you like placement / color of the message so that i can commit in the case. Attilio Fia

Bug#339855: "Execute a shell" and "Configure base sytem" do not work on graphical installer

2005-11-19 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Severity: Normal As "execute a shell", neither "configure base sytem" works using the GTK frontend; so far i've explored two solutions for "Execute a shell" broken menu item 1) developing a shell-gtk udeb that contains a gtk app that opens a shell in a new window an

Bug#339857: GTK frontend should act as NEWT frontend when ESC key is pressed

2005-11-19 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Version: 0.91 Severity: minor Using the NEWT frontend when "ESC" key is pressed you get back one step: the GTK frontend too should implement such a functionality to improve usability and to match NEWT behaviour. Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#340007: SELECT questions are not automatically scrolled to the active choice

2005-11-20 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Tags: upstream Severity: normal The actual implementation of GDK library for DirectFrameBuffer 2.0.9 doesn't allow a GtkTreeView to be scrolled down to the row corresponding to the active choice when SELECT questions are displayed. This bugs shows up under GTKDFB v. 2

Bug#403904: Install went mostly fine, some improvements possible

2006-12-21 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Christian Perrier wrote: This is a known problem with the graphical installer. Will probably not be fixed for etch. Is this because it's tough to fix or that time is limited? I guess probably both Attilio would better answer than me on that matter. that's a minor but annoting issue i d

Bug#404482: Patch to fix the "I" cursor issue

2006-12-25 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: normal tags: patch Many users complained about the cursor remaining "I" shaped after passing on a question description (that's due to a minor gtk/dfb bug which still has to be fixed) As a workaround, the attached patch resets the cursor to its original arro

Bug#403639: Patch for this bug should be available soon

2006-12-28 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi following up to myself to announce that a preliminary patch (attached) for this bug was worked out some days ago and should be soon available in a definitive version as soon as mike emmel, gtkdfb maintainer, reviews it. The patch fixes the memory leaks that were experienced when destroyin

Bug#404954: Some comments about the installgui

2006-12-30 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Christian Perrier wrote: First of all, the first screen "Select your language" looks really awful. This is being worked on but will probably not be ready for etch. Using a fixed size is not that well adapted to complex languages rendering, ufortunately, so another solution has to be found (and

Bug#404482: Patch to fix the "I" cursor issue

2006-12-31 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: Hi Attilio, On Monday 25 December 2006 15:45, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: As a workaround, the attached patch resets the cursor to its original arrow shape when it moves into the main gdkwindow. I've tested this in vmware and it does make the cursor switch back some

Bug#404482: Patch to fix the "I" cursor issue

2007-01-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 16:58, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Yesterday i replied to this bug, but my reply never hit d-boot tough it was recorded in the bts, maybe because of attached jpg size: it still can be found in #404482 debian's bts page. I saw your pings on IRC.

Bug#404482: Patch to fix the "I" cursor issue

2007-01-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 16:59, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Ok, i have a new patch here which fixes the unreliability frans reported and also makes the cursor arrow shaped even on a question description. This patch looks a lot better. It is still possible for me to get a

Bug#407035: graphical installer crashes

2007-01-16 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Joel Johnson wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: important Justification: after crashing, installer hangs starting partitioning task Boot method: CD Image version: installer build 20070109-03:51 Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Memory: 1GB Partitions: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862

Bug#407035: graphical installer crashes

2007-01-17 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Joel Johnson wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: important Justification: after crashing, installer hangs starting partitioning task Boot method: CD Image version: installer build 20070109-03:51 Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Memory: 1GB Partitions: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862

Bug#407205: LVM Volume deleted from graphical installer

2007-01-17 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
retitle 395489 Handler for single SELECT and MULTISELECT questions updates debconf database even if BACK is selected severity 395489 normal severity 407205 normal merge 395489 407205 thanks Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 21:27, Frans Pop wrote: The second problem _is_ in the grap

Bug#407205: LVM Volume deleted from graphical installer

2007-01-17 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:45, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: As a result, the last activated option is always made default for SELECT questions, no matter the user pressed . This was considered a minor bug, so never spent time in fixing it: should i do it now ? If you

Bug#407205: Patch available, please test

2007-01-19 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi Attached is a patch that should fix SELECT and MULTISELCT question handlers. Moreover, the SELECT single handler no longer lets the user to unselect all options toghether: one, at least, will be always selected. Also, ome code cleanup was necessary, as a result from adding new setter functio

Bug#407205: LVM Volume deleted from graphical installer

2007-01-19 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:45, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: As a result, the last activated option is always made default for SELECT questions, no matter the user pressed . This was considered a minor bug, so never spent time in fixing it: should i do it now ? If you

Bug#407577: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: frontend crashes on GoBack from user-setup

2007-01-19 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Version: 0.112 Severity: important While testing the patch for #407205, I ran into a crash in the frontend after a specific sequence in user-setup. However, the crash is not related to the patch as I can also reproduce it with the current version in

Bug#407205: Patch available, please test

2007-01-20 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: Thanks Attilio. The patch seems to work fine. I have seen no regressions while testing it and the storage of selections in the debconf database seems good. great! On Friday 19 January 2007 15:53, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Moreover, the SELECT single handler no longer lets

Bug#407205: Patch available, please test

2007-01-21 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 21 January 2007 02:20, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: No, i'm talking about SELECT only: now there is always a row selected, so when the user presses you always end with "xxx" as value for a given question. Previously the user was allowed to deselected

Bug#407035: graphical installer crashes

2007-01-21 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Joel Johnson wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: important Justification: after crashing, installer hangs starting partitioning task Boot method: CD Image version: installer build 20070109-03:51 Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Memory: 1GB Partitions: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862

Bug#407035: Patch for bug #407035 available, please test

2007-01-21 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
tags 407035 patch tags 407205 patch thanks Hi Attached is a patch that sets the number of pixels the cursor can move before dragging to a value bigger that the length of diagonal line of screen (we currenty use vesa 800*600). The effect is taht one can no longer drag text from the question de

Bug#407035: graphical installer crashes

2007-01-22 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Joel Johnson wrote: Comments/Problems: Dragging GUI elements in the graphical installer can lead to a crash of the partitioning step. When this happens, the installer attempts to restart the task with "Starting up the partitioner" but hangs about mid-way through the status bar. Dragging a line ap

Bug#388668: Bug 388668 recently fixed upstream

2007-01-24 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
tags patch thanks Hi FYI, this bug was eventually found out to be caused by wrong gdkevents delivery order by the gdk/dfb library and was recently fixed upstream [1]. Anyway, ATM we don't necessarily need a backport of the patch since is was already fixed with a workaround [2] in the cdebconf

Bug#385026: Reassigning bug 385026 to libcairo-directfb2

2007-01-24 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
reassign 385026 libcairo-directfb2 tags 385026 patch thanks This bug was found [1] to be not related to gtk/dfb, but to accelerated rectangles drawing in directfb cairo backend, which was hence disabled upsteam. ATM the graphical d-i is no more affected by this bug because we started using, as

Bug#407577: More testing results for this bug

2007-01-24 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
I noticed that this bug can be reproduced the way frans suggested iff the installer is run at priorities high or critical (low or med don't do). Another way to reproduce this bug is entering disagreeing passwords, pressing and then . Anyway, i pot some test prints in the gtk_go() body and i

Bug#408228: cdebconf: uninstallable under some conditions because of dependancy cycle

2007-01-25 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
t gtk/x11 , a patch [1] is needed. Viceversa, the web frontend [2] is ready to be merged into our svn tree and should run easily, without need for X explicit dependance, and i wonder if this could be an option over the GTK one for desktop systems. Attilio Fiandrotti [1] http://bugs.debian.or

Bug#402661: SELECT handler crashes when the default option is present multiple times

2006-12-11 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: normal tags: patch Suppose a SELECT question has options mickey goofy donald goofy and goofy (present twice in the options list) is the default option: you'll get a crash under directfb and a warning under x11 as soon as the question gets displayed. The cr

Bug#402907: Please add /etc/directfbrc content to hw-report

2006-12-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: installation-report severity: minor tags: patch Please, add content of /etc/directfbrc to logs as this may help detecting issues related to those startup scripts, both in x86 and PowerPC, which setup directfb configuration file basing on detected motherboard, framebuffer device ecc..

Bug#401876: Different gtk behaviour from newt when a select question has no options

2006-12-14 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi I really wonder what's the difference between the newt and gtk frontend that causes some questions being asked by gtk frontend and not by newt. I noticed that when a SELECT question has no options, like this Name: test/select Type: select Default: Choices: Description: Choose,man Extended_

Bug#403268: [directfb-dev] Bug#403268: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: freezes on start showing grey screen and frozen cursor on Toshiba Satellite A40

2006-12-15 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 15 December 2006 21:45, Frans Pop wrote: I've finally been able to trace the problem to a config change in the kernel: -CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=m +CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y It's still a bit unclear how/why that option was changed. It may have been on request of the mai

Bug#403268: [directfb-dev] Bug#403268: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: freezes on start showing grey screen and frozen cursor on Toshiba Satellite A40

2006-12-16 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: clone 403268 -1 reassign 403268 rootskel tag 403268 + pending reassign -1 directfb retitle -1 [G-I] Use of ps2mouse module freezes Toshiba Satellite A40 thanks On Saturday 16 December 2006 02:45, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: I guess your hardware is a bit different from mine

Bug#402661: SELECT handler crashes when the default option is present multiple times

2006-12-16 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: Looks like this patch also fixes a freeze of the system when a blank line is selected in the main screen of partman. IIRC there usually are two blank lines in partman's main screen: if one of the twin blank lines is selected by default, this patch is needed to avoid a crash.

Bug#403639: Memory leaks happens when destroying a GdkWindow

2006-12-18 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
an-boot as this strongly impacts on g-i usability. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-December/msg00063.html Attilio Fiandrotti -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: I ran a lot of them and I could switch back and forth from vt1 to vt7. Nothing crashed at all. BTW, Looking at the strace output, the problem could come from signal usage, like you said. Jerome, thanks for testing: the idea i got is that DFB is not responsable for cras

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is fixed? In this case we could backport the fix from DFB 1.0-rc2 to DFB 0.9.25: would

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 14:51, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : How does it need to be fixed? Won't using different signal fix the issue? Using different signals should fix up this specific crash, but basing on this BR [1] by colin watson cdebconf's signa

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is fixed? In this case we could backport the fix from DFB 1.0-rc2 to DFB 0.9.25: would

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le mardi 07 novembre 2006 14:30, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is

Bug#397678: main-menu: segfaults on amd64 after "Set up users and passwords" step

2006-11-09 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: Package: main-menu Severity: grave After configuring users and passwords in d-i screen starts blinking and following messages appear at console (may contain typos): process: ###): INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8) On other console, following m

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-09 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:26:59PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: Le mardi 07 novembre 2006 19:01, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Unfortunately, nothing changed. I can try to provide a new strace output, as soon as someone unbreaks rootskel. So far we stated this bug

Bug#397877: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: incorrect line selected as default in tree lists

2006-11-10 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Version: 0.108 Severity: important During localechooser, the default line selected in the full country list will be the continent instead of the country. Steps to reproduce: - start the installer with 'installgui priority=medium' - select "Choose la

Bug#395257: [directfb-dev] Bug#395257: Workaround for keymap related bugs in g-i available, please test it

2006-12-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 17:07, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Today, after many unlucky experiments, i tried disabling the "keyboard" module in directfbrc, hence having linux_input manage the keyboard, as DOK and suggested some times ago and Davide reminded me yester

Bug#400898: [directfb-users] Problems with pixelformat rgba 6/0, 6/0, 6/0, 0/0

2006-12-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Ville Syrjälä wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:34:25AM +0100, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: Hi We recently received bugreports [1] [2] about this pixelformat not being supported by DFB, and googling around

Bug#400898: [directfb-users] Problems with pixelformat rgba 6/0, 6/0, 6/0, 0/0

2006-12-02 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Ville Syrjälä wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:59:06PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Ville Syrjälä wrote: 4bit sounds like vga16fb to me. uhm.. i often noticed we also have vga16fb loaded, which usually gives us fb1 aside fb0 by vesafb: if fb0 and fb1 were swapped could that be the

Bug#400898: More informations needed to fix this bug

2006-12-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Dear all We suspect the crash you reported are due to vesafb and vga16fb framebuffer devices started somehow in wrong order. To check that, i ask you to boot a graphical installer miniiso [1] with install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt This will boot the installer with the classical textual frontend.

Bug#395257: This bug was patched in rootskel-gtk from SVN, needs some testing on PPC

2006-12-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
tags 395257 pending thanks Frans just patchced this bug in r43120: it would be nice if someone could build and test a g-i miniiso which includes rootskel-gtk from SVN, as on PPC we had quite a few problems in the past with linux_input module [1]. thanks Attilio [1] http://wiki.debian.org/

Bug#401296: How to reproduce this bug

2006-12-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Eddy provided some useful informations for testing: with romanian (ro) keymap the letters a circumflex, a breve, s cedilla, t cedilla and i circumflex can be produced respectively with AltGr+q, AltGr+a, AltGr+s, Altgr+t, AltGr+i I also wonder if this bug is related to DejaVu: Davide, do you t

Bug#394871: Bug#395257: Workaround for keymap related bugs in g-i available, please test it

2006-12-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi Miroslav I believe the bugs you ran into are more similar to #401296 (G-I interface does not work in UTF-8 mode/input handled in 8859-1) and #394871 ( cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9) ) than to #395257. #395257 ([g-i] keymap change works only once), is

Bug#401296: Bug#395257: Workaround for keymap related bugs in g-i available, please test it

2006-12-03 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi Miroslav I believe the bugs you ran into are more similar to #401296 (G-I interface does not work in UTF-8 mode/input handled in 8859-1) and #394871 ( cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9) ) than to #395257. #395257 ([g-i] keymap change works only once)

Bug#401296: [g-i] The point about bugs related to keyboard handling

2006-12-04 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Today i did some tests to dig into these two bugs #394871: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9) This bug is about dead keys (e.g.: "[" with fr-latin9, "'" with br-latin1, "Pause" with cz-us-qwerty) not working in g-i #401296: G-I interface does not work

Bug#373253: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-12-04 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Claudio Ciccani schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Claudio Ciccani schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: But pthread_cancel() also terminates the thread at mutex_lock for example which would be bad if a lock is already taken. I'd prefer having well chosen voluntary

Bug#401681: DirectFB should always use the vesa fb device on i386

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
ing to DirectFB configuration file (/etc/directfbrc) a line indicating what fb device has to be used (the one provided by vesafb). A miniiso [1] including this patch is available for testing. Attilio Fiandrotti [1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_vesafbonly.iso Index: src/lib/debian-installer.d/S61c

Bug#401685: DirectFB should always use the vesa fb device on i386

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
ing to DirectFB configuration file (/etc/directfbrc) a line indicating what fb device has to be used (the one provided by vesafb). A miniiso [1] including this patch is available for testing. Attilio Fiandrotti [1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_vesafbonly.iso Index: src/lib/debian-installer.d/S61c

Bug#401693: Patch to make the g-i fulscreen

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: wishlist tags: patch GTK frontend has currently a fixed size 800x600, but on some machines (especially PPCs) the framebuffer device has a fixed size which is greater than 800x600, resulting in a ugly frame around the installer. This patch takes care of maki

Bug#401710: Please add /proc/fb to hw-report

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: installation-report severity: minor tags: patch Please, add content of /proc/fb to logs as this may help detecting issues related to DirectFB accessing the wrong framebuffer device when multiple framebuffer debvices are available. Patch is attached. thanks Attilio Index: report-hw

Bug#395257: tests of trunk rootskel-gtk on powerpc seem ok

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Eddy Petrișor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have made an image for powerpc with the rootskel-gtk from trunk which includes the fix/workaround for this bug. I was able to type on an English keyboard after selecting: Italian layout, then EN_US layout. After thes

Bug#401715: Language selection list display vertically unaligned translated names

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: minor Currently the list of languages is diplayed via the generic handler for single SELECT questions, which simply left-aligns text and uses variable width fonts. Translated language names are hence left vertically unaligned: to get that one should write a

Bug#401685: DirectFB should always use the vesa fb device on i386

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Otavio Salvador wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The attached patch takes care of adding to DirectFB configuration file (/etc/directfbrc) a line indicating what fb device has to be used (the one provided by vesafb). Nice patch. Works fine here. (but it worked

Bug#394615: More testing needed

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Fabrice LORRAIN wrote: [please don't forget to cc me, or [EMAIL PROTECTED], I didn't notice this mail until I checked http://bugs.debian.org, today] Hi Fabrice, thanks for testing once again, but i believe you replied to an old test request: we recently discovered that the cause of the crash

Bug#401693: Patch to make the g-i fulscreen

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:08, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: GTK frontend has currently a fixed size 800x600, but on some machines (especially PPCs) the framebuffer device has a fixed size which is greater than 800x600, resulting in a ugly frame around the installer. This

Bug#401715: Language selection list display vertically unaligned translated names

2006-12-05 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:59, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Translated language names are hence left vertically unaligned: to get that one should write a specific plugin for debconf/language I'm not sure that yet another template specific handler is what we want here

Bug#401693: Patch to make the g-i fulscreen

2006-12-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:50, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:08, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: GTK frontend has currently a fixed size 800x600, but on some machines (especially PPCs) the framebuffer device has a fixed size which

Bug#401871: Crash in gtk frontend when some languages are selected

2006-12-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: normal tags: patch Try booting a gtk miniiso at default medium priority and you'll be prompted for language choice -Select "Danish", then back to main-menu -Select "Language Selection" , pick "English", then back to main menu -Select "Danish", then back to ma

Bug#401685: Bug#394615: More testing needed

2006-12-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Fabrice LORRAIN wrote: Follow-up from #394615 sent to #401684. using iso [1] from yesterday : cat /proc/fb 0 VGA16 VGA ls -la /dev/fb* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Dec 6 20:11 /dev/fb0 -> fb/0 /dev/fb: crw-rw1 root root 29, 0 Dec 6 20:11 0 grep -i fb sy

Bug#401685: DirectFB should always use the vesa fb device on i386

2006-12-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
reassign 401685 rootskel retitle 401685 GTK frontend should be started on x86 iff fb0 is vesa thanks Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Otavio Salvador wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The attached patch takes care of adding to DirectFB configuration file (/etc/directf

Bug#401685: DirectFB should always use the vesa fb device on i386

2006-12-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Today i had the chance to test the g-i on my friend's laptop, who yesterday reported g-i crash and swapped fb0 fb1 devices (actually he owns a GeForce 6200 Go) I repeated the test using the very same ISO as yesterday and, this time, vesa was correctly mappe

Bug#373253: Reassigning bugs related to crash at VT switching on AMD64

2006-12-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
reassign 373253 libdirectfb-0.9-25-udeb tags 373253 + patch thanks Since this crash is due to libgcc1 not present in d-i, while on a regular debian system it is and the crash does not occurs, i'm reassigning this bug to the udeb version of libdirectfb. As a patch we're going to provide libgcc1

Bug#373253: Reassigning bugs related to DirectFB crashing on some hardware

2006-12-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
unmerge 401681 unmerge 400898 reassign 394401 rootskel merge 394401 401685 reassign 400898 rootskel merge 400898 401681 thanks Unmerging 401681 (crash due to undeterministic fb0/1 swap) from 401685 (crash due unsupported hardware by vesafb). Mering 394401 and 401685 because of their affinity.

Bug#384543: Please test Logitech Wireless adapter with recent GTK miniiso

2006-12-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi Philipp We recently added support for those input devices which provide absolute x,y coordinates (touchpads) and modified the way keyboard is handled (disabled keyboard module). Could you please test this miniiso [1] with your Logitech wireless mouse and report any improvement / regression

Bug#402127: GTK frontend should build on and X target too

2006-12-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: minor tags: patch This patch is needed to build cdebconf's GTK frontend in an X11 environment; i'm using GDK_WINDOWING_X11 as GDK_WINDOWING_DIRECTFB is currently not available in GTKDFB 2.8.20. I'd like this patch to be applied because - It's necessary if

Bug#402126: GTK frontend should not reload keymap at every frontend_go() call

2006-12-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: minor At every frontend_go() call the GTK frontend forces DirectFB to reload keymap: this causes VT1 pollution and is however not really clean. We should have something like a pipe the GTK frontend should be listening on to reload keymap as soon as command f

Bug#401685: vesa fb fails on Virge DX2/GX

2006-12-09 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
FYI, today i booted the patched g-i [1] image on an old PII, 128 Mb ram, Virge DX2: vesafb failed to start and i was prompted to enter a different vido mode (textual only), but the patch succeeded in falling back to NEWT frontend. cheers Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 21:01, Roy Francis wrote: Comments/Problems: I am using the daily-build netinst image burnt onto a CDRW using cdrecord. Once the bootsplash is shown, I used installgui at boot-prompt. Booting is perfect in all respects until the framebuffer initialisat

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Roy Francis wrote: On 1/7/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 21:01, Roy Francis wrote: > Comments/Problems: > I am using the daily-build netinst image burnt onto a CDRW using > cdrecord. Once the bootsplash is shown, I used installgui at > boot-prompt. Booting is

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Roy Francis wrote: On 1/8/07, Attilio Fiandrotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a tipical case of vesafb not being able to start because of unsupported video card: many video cards simply aren't supported by vesafb, so we implemented a sw fallback to the textual frontend for

Bug#403639: Fix committed in svn repo

2007-01-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi Just wanted to say the patch was eventually committed to gnome svn [1]: i tried a backport to our 2.8.20 but was unable to due to that complex set of patches already present :( Would be possible building an experimental 2-8-20 udeb with this patch to see what its effects are? thanks Atti

Bug#403639: Fix committed in svn repo

2007-01-09 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Loïc Minier wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Just wanted to say the patch was eventually committed to gnome svn [1]: i tried a backport to our 2.8.20 but was unable to due to that complex set of patches already present :( Would be possible building an experimental 2-8-20

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: reassign 405737 cdebconf-gtk-udeb retitle 405737 G-I does not support some i810 graphics cards thanks On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:03, Roy Francis wrote: If I simply insmod a precompiled i810fb.ko, will it work ? I've been testing a bit with that, but at least on my laptop

Bug#403639: Fix committed in svn repo

2007-01-12 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:21, Loïc Minier wrote: I've uploaded these debs to unstable. OK, thanks. That means that we can get some more testing in before requesting migration. Let's hope that with Lenny we can switch to a truly integrated 2.10 soon. I strongly agre

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 10:42, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Since i810 isn't simply supported by vesafb, a way out for this could be providing i810fb module in the installer/ in the kernel and loading it at boot time when i810 chip is detected. Tests on my laptop s

Bug#399636: g3 imac: installation with the gtk-mini.iso

2006-11-22 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
se the fbdev device". Enjoy! Rick On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: The g-i was never reported to work on PPC equipped with nvidia boards: rick, if you set the X server to use the fbdev device on your g5, does it crash too? cheers Attilio -- To UNS

Bug#399173: Etch installation on HPC nx6325

2006-11-22 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Verand wrote: > Using installgui: > Failed step: "choose and install software", right after xorg configuration. > Failed GRUB installation. No /boot/grub created. > GUI mode hangs after switching consoles. Does this result in a screen flash after which you're sent back to the graphical insta

Bug#340007: Patch for this bug available

2006-11-22 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 16:02, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Your last commit seems to have broken the gtk frontend. I get an error code 141 in localechooser before the language list is shown. The frontend gets restarted. Strangely enough if I boot with

Bug#340007: Patch for this bug available

2006-11-22 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:28, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: very same thing for me, even before my last cleanup commit. i was able to reproduce this crash a couple of times some days ago, but recently i could not reproduce it anymore. OK. May have been a library problem

Bug#354624: Patch to handle touchpads in g-i available

2006-11-22 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi I recently wrote a patch against DFB 0.9.25 which adds to linux_input the capability to translate absolute x,y coordinates generated by touchpads into relative ones: this allows using Synaptic touchpads with the g-i. The patch was sent for review to directfb-dev [1] and was said to be ok,

Bug#354624: Patch to handle touchpads in g-i available

2006-11-22 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
whops, forget the previous patch, that was an old one: the up to date one is attached to this mail. the iso i prepared was however built using the right patchfile. cheers attilio --- linux_input.c.orig 2006-11-15 12:23:52.0 +0100 +++ linux_input.c 2006-11-21 23:26:36.0 +0100 @@

Bug#354624: Patch to handle touchpads in g-i available

2006-11-23 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 16:44, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: I recently wrote a patch against DFB 0.9.25 which adds to linux_input the capability to translate absolute x,y coordinates generated by touchpads into relative ones: this allows using Synaptic touchpads with the g

Bug#354624: Patch to handle touchpads in g-i available

2006-11-23 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Alejandro Rios Peña wrote: El mié, 22-11-2006 a las 16:44 +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti escribió: Hi I recently wrote a patch against DFB 0.9.25 which adds to linux_input the capability to translate absolute x,y coordinates generated by touchpads into relative ones: this allows using Synaptic

Bug#400124: Buttons in the GTK frontend are not properly setup

2006-11-23 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: minor tags: patch Currently the screenshot and cancel buttons are setup sensitive in gtk_initialize(), so if a long time should pass between frontend_intialize() and frontend_go(), the user may be able to click them. As the gtk_main() loop is already running

Bug#400177: Cancel button is not accessible with TAB key while a progressbar runs

2006-11-24 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: minor the cancel button, displayed while the progressbar runs if the debconf client has set the procresscancel capability, canot be accessed using the TAB button. Try tabbing to cancel button while the dhcp client tries to autoconfigure the network (tested

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