On 1/11/2010 3:08 AM, William M. Quarles wrote: > On 1/10/2010 7:52 PM, William M. Quarles wrote: >> 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? > > François (and others), > > I was able to get the computer to boot after I pressed and held > Alt-FunnyKey-p-r. ifup eth0 works, but for some reason I'm still not > accessing the Internet. It seems that the system fails to seek an IP > address for some reason. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > William > OK, well, I could really use some help here, mailing list. (I don't think messages are being forwarded properly to and from GMANE right now, but I'm going to do further checks on that. Back to the matter at hand...) Given that I could not get X to successfully start in both kernel mode and vesa driver mode, nor could I successfully obtain an IP address to connect to the Internet, I was left in a conundrum with Fedora 12. So I trashed it and installed Fedora 11 with a network-installation disc instead. Since the Fedora 11 installation discs at release were apparently able to get an IP address (but Fedora 12 couldn't?) I was able to download the latest updates for Fedora 11 during installation. Again, no X, only text, but it worked. I then used yum to do "groupinstall"s to get most of the software that I needed on the ol' Power Mac G4 here. I was finally get X to start, but fonts keep coming up corrupted. I could really use some help getting X usable now on Fedora 11--not to mention an actual working install of Fedora 12 with networking usable--as I volunteered to get PowerPC support for Fedora 11 AND 12 going for Planet CCRMA for Stanford University, and I would actually like to be able to USE and TEST the software that we plan on distributing. Thanks, William -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
