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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
