[Cbe-oss-dev] Installing Debian on the PS3 Has the processchanged?

[thegame4121982 at msn.com]

Hi, thanks for the reply. This may very well be what's going on. I will look 
into this this weekend. Thanks.

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From: "Dan Munckton" <lists at munckfish.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:12 AM
To: <thegame4121982 at msn.com>
Cc: <cbe-oss-dev at ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Installing Debian on the PS3 Has the 
processchanged?

> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 14:42 -0400, thegame4121982 at msn.com wrote:
>> I can still install Debian using your instructions but the x window
>> system no longer starts up. I've hard that Xorg is now using an
>> autodection based system an so you are no longer asked questions about
>> your monitor and screen resolution during installation. This is fine
>> if everything goes well as everything is auto detected but may bring
>> problems if the autodection  fails for whatever reason.  Seems like
>> you have to do some tweaking now to get everything working.
>
> Ubuntu had some problems starting X when it swapped over to the
> auto-detecting version. We needed a couple of very small patches which
> got it working again - however I think they should have been submitted
> back to debian by now. Worth checking though.
>
> If my memory serves me correctly Ubuntu's X doesn't auto-detect the ps3
> itself instead the 'dexconf' (in the 'xorg' package) script which
> creates the initial /etc/X11/xorg.conf detects the ps3fb and specifies
> it explicitly. Our issue was [0].
>
> The other issues we had were a couple of bugs in the routines in Xserver
> itself which try to use PCI info to discover the graphics card [1][2].
>
> Hope these pointers may be of some use.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dan
>
> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ps3-port/+bug/230091
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ps3-port/+bug/219424
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ps3-port/+bug/217647
>
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