William M. Quarles wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having trouble with using the Fedora 12 installation CDs on my > new-old PowerMac G4 that I have acquired. It has a ATI Radeon AGP card > installed, and I'm using a DVI connection to my monitor. Once I get to > the graphical install screen, the installation program's box on the > screen is totally scrambled. The mouse cursor, oddly enough, looks > perfect. I know that on the i386 distribution I had to use the basic > video drivers on some of my computers. Is the same true for Fedora 12 on > the PPC? If so, how do I enable the basic video drivers for > installation? I've tried booting the installation kernel with "linux > nomodeset" per a Common F12 bug, but alas nothing different happened. I ran into what sounds like the same problem on a Pismo. I think I used the 'usefbx' boot parameter to get it to work. You might also try 'xdriver=vesa'. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
