Hi, Hopefully I've cc'd the right people to get this remedied now.
Summary: could you please add svgatextmode to the list of packages autobuilt for amd64 now. It is reported to work there. I can kick this off with maintainer upload for this arch, with #428999 fixed (again). Cheers, Ron On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:01:43PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>>> Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> BTW, why the amd64 binary for SVGATextMode is missing from the > >> archive? > > > That's a good question, but its not a bug in the package itself so > > far as I am aware. Active development on this ceased long before > > there ever was an amd64 arch, so I guess the buildd blacklist has > > just never been updated, > > I've supposed something like that. Yet I don't know where the > blacklist could be found so that I could check it. > > > and you may well be the first to ever actually try it ;-) > > Well, it seems that Ubuntu has a binary package: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/admin/svgatextmode > > >> I've recently built it from source on an etch amd64 system and it > >> works just fine. > > > Cool. I don't see too many reasons why it should not, though I also > > wouldn't be too surprised if some hardware specific code will need a > > type tweak or two. Just for the record here, what video hardware > > are you using? > > I've used default TextConfig (with ``Chipset "VGA"''.) The > hardware is: > > # lspci > ... > 00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02) > ... > # > >> (Unfortunately, I cannot set-up pbuilder environment at the moment > >> to check for the missing dependencies.) > > > That's ok, if you think this is a viable addition to the amd64 arch, > > please report your success to the buildd maintainers with a request > > to update the blacklist. > > How do I reach them? > > > If that happens, I can check the build logs myself. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
