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Ok I got the archive bit going as soon my query bounced back to me.
I did my first ever Linux install yesterday [it was a Debian install,
ftp-style]. It went great after a ton of trial and error [rebooting into OS X
to re-read an out-dated debian installation guide in Acrobat Pro], but, even
though I had the Powerbook dual-booting, the first time I tried to alter the
resolution inside the gnome desktop, i got all the wacky horizontal bs on my
LCD and my external crt. No good
This morning I started burning Yellow Dog Installers, and did the YDL install.
I had to reboot off my Debian installer to delete the partitions created within
one pre-existing hfs+ partition AND be able to see them as accessible free
space. The YDL manual partitioning would not give me access to the 'free'
space, otherwise.
So, after that weirdness I ran the YDL installer, and considering its entire
development was on macintosh, it seemed to ID a lot of stuff as 'generic this
or that'..funny, considering the deb installer (200 MBs smaller in size) had
everything pegged (even a Matias keyboard and its stupid usb hub which no Mac
can recognize consistently).
So, moment of truth, and not only did I get no video, I also was told after the
final config of the completed installation, that "The X server (?) cannot be
used to run a desktop"... blah blah, and then it asked if I wanted to know why?
Yes, i clicked, Did i want a detailed report? Yes again... so what happens? No
report, no log, just a reboot into a CLI-only interface.
Yikes. Over in the archives (and all over the Linux/PPC web, in general, it
looks like 3 out of 4 posts is regarding the 9600.
One question for starters:
When i first booted ('c' key down) to try the YDL cd1 and install, the verbose
stuff after I typed :install all listed radeon 9600...Monitor 1 (lcd), Monitor
2 (crt) 3-button PS/2 mouse (actually an 11-button kensington Turbo Pro track,
but hey)... it looked rosy.... and then, after the install, all of a sudden we
have 'can't ID this, 'generic' that, 'something on usb 1', etc, culminating in
can't run the X server window manager (sic)
What is up with that?
thanks
Brian Stegner
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