Re: Trouble with graphics on installing Fedora 12 ppc (early PowerMac G4)

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On 1/10/2010 11:22 AM, François Cami wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:31:07 -0500
> "William M. Quarles"<walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Do you know what kind of Radeon this is? I think it could be anything
> within 7000/7500/8500 models.

Nope, and I think I'll need the OS up and running in order to check.

>> 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.
>
> Try booting the installer with "linux vesa".

I did, and it failed to start the X server with the vesa driver. 
However, it did fall back to text installation, and I completed that.

> Once you've installed F12 successfully, please run "yum update" and
> reboot. If the radeon drivers still don't work, please try the
> xorg* libdrm* mesa* packages from updates-testing
> (yum -y --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg* libdrm* mesa*).
> If these don't solve the problem, please report the bug at
> bugzilla.redhat.com after searching for similar issues.

I would try that, except I can't get the computer to boot off of the 
hard drive after installation is complete! I used two 40GB hard drives 
that I extracted out of a typical i686 machine in order to carry out the 
installation, I put the Apple disklabels on them using parted, and 
carried out the installation, but now it won't boot! Am I missing a step 
here?

Thanks,
William

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