On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:01:11PM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote: > I am attempting to install on an RS/6000 with two power3 processors and > a Matrox Mystique video card. The cd (2005.0; I also tried 2004.3) > seems to boot properly (that is, without error messages on the text > console). The framebuffer seems to work as I get two smiling penguins > on the screen. The problem is the text on the monitor is garbled and/or > backwards. For example, the text under the penguins appears to be > Japanese or Chinese. If I type 'ls' I get what appears to be a > directory listing: "[some strange symbol]SNARLBT." I think this is > supposed to be TRANS.TBL. If I 'cd /' and 'ls' I get a mixture of > Japanese/Chinese-appearing characters and directory names such as > "toob", "toor", "nibs", and "emoh" instead of "boot", "root", "sbin", and > "home". A couple hours with Google has not been enlightening. I am new > to the PPC platform and new to Gentoo. Any ideas?
It appears this is a bug that has been fixed (#88074). It also appears that I need to better refine my search terms. :-) -- john-thomas ------ A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965) -- [email protected] mailing list
