Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sorry for taking that long to reply.
>> 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.
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