On 2014-03-11 18:27 +0100, Jud Leonard wrote: > I have a Power Mac G5 with NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB DDR > SDRAM. The G5 also has 3GB of DRAM, an 80 GB disk in slot A, and a > 500 GB disk in slot B. The big disk has MacOSX 10.5.8, which works > fine. > > I installed Debian 7.4 on the smaller disk, using a netinst CD. The > installation seemed to work fine, but when I booted Linux, my monitor > (a Sony Multiscan 420GS) put up an error alert saying the input scan > rate was out of range, on an otherwise blank screen. I tried another > monitor, which displayed nothing. I repeated the installation, using > “install video=ofonly”, with the same result.
You're probably best off asking on the debian-powerpc list. There has been a thread for a similar problem recently[1]. > I would appreciate advice on how to debug this problem. TIA. Try booting with the "video=TV-1:d" kernel parameter. If that does not help, boot with "nomodeset". Good luck, Sven 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2014/03/threads.html#00001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
