On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:04:07PM -0700, Eric David Hedekar wrote: > Hi, I've had a lot of trouble getting Linux off the ground. I am > running an Umax S900 (oldworld mac clone). I was able to get woody loaded > and working but not able to get my graphics card (an imicro TwinTurbo) to
The fbdev driver is in the kernel, unless Jens has kicked it out in the meantime. > work with xwindows and because I'm a Linux newbie I need my xwindows. I Try the fbdev driver. > have been told that the newer kernel that Sarge has will allow xwindows to > work fine but then I have run into another road block. I am unable to get > the sarge installer to load from bootx. When I click on the linux option at > the bootx window the screen goes black and never comes back (the little > light at the bottom of the monitor doesn't change so I know some thing is > running but I am unable to see it). Can anyone point me in the right > direction as to which initrid to be using to get this started? Or is there > something else wrong? Did you try the miboot floppies at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ Well, not those from yesterday, as those where broken, but try the july-11 ones, or the ones from july-14. Friendly, Sven Luther
