On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 18:35 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Peter! > > On 3/30/22 18:04, Peter van Zaanen wrote: > > After following these steps, and with the latest image from > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/ > > which installs fine btw, the screen stays blank. >
> What kind of VGA adapter does this machine have? Is it actually an > Radeon > GPU or something different? lspci shows: VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV280/M9+ [Mobility Radeon 9200 AGP] (rev 01) My iBook is this 12" G4: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/specs/ibook_g4_1.2_12.html Peter > > FWIW, I tested these images on my personal iBook G4 and after > installing > the AMD firmware package, updating the initramfs (which normally > happens > automatically when installing the package) and updating GRUB, the > graphical > environment worked fine for me. > > It's very important that /boot/grub is mounted read-write before > trying to > run update-initramfs and update-grub. > > Adrian >
