Hello all, I'm running Mac OSX on my cube, but i thought I'd give linux a shot. I deleted my OS9 partition, and re-partioned it even smaller (it was 4.5GB, I went to 1.1 gig for Os9, the rest for linux). Popped in the MDK CD, and I was away. None of the video installers worked on my mac, but the text mode worked fine. Yaboot selected my empty MacOS partition instead of the OSX partition (although both are HFS+), but a quick edit fixed that. Upon rebooting X would not load at all... so a few questions and comments... ;)
Firsly, is there a key-press combo that will exit X, like Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does on x86? I tried Ctrl+Cmd and Ctrl+Option with backspace, but neither worked ... it could be X is hung, but i can't tell, I just get a blank screen. I have an Nvidia GeForce2MX 400, which was never offered on the mac, but works fine in OS9 and X ... I'm hoping whatever nvidia driver works for the Apple GeForce 2 will work with my card as well ... There is one, right? :) Since I had to shut down the box with X hung, fsck wanted to run on my only partition. It got halfway through, detected an error, and wanted me to run it manually ... At this point I realized my keyboard didn't work. This was interesting, it works at the yaboot prompt, it works while the kernel is booting, but i think when it sets my keyboard to mode us with loadkeys, this borks something. If the machine boots normally, the keyboard works at the login prompt too ... should i remove the first loadkeys call in the init scripts? Is this a known problem? Its kind of annoying to boot off CD, fsck manually, reboot, test X, machine hangs, lather, rinse, repeat ... Also xf86cfg hangs as well, and XConfigurator is a broken link to ../sbin/XFDrake (spelling may be slightly off). This doesn't seem right, but i only had the first CD, no CD2 yet, so XFDrake on the second CD, or maybe not installed? I will investigate further ... -e
