Hi Doug! On 3/31/22 03:17, Doug Kiekow wrote: > Today I went with the 3/28 powerpc on a G4 desktop from 2002 (quicksilver). > The install went well, but seemed much slower. The boot went to corrupted > graphics, so I tried again adding nomodeset to grub boot. The boot started > normally, but eventually hung with a blinking underscore cursor in the upper > left corner of the display. I then tried to boot into recovery mode, but ended > up with a corrupt graphics screen. > > The graphics card in the G4 is an Nvidia GForce4 Ti 4600 which is listed as > unsupported, but is supposed to work with the nouveau or vesa drivers. Are > they part of the netinst image, or do I need to reinstall and offer a usb > stick when asked for additonal software?
nVidia cards are probably not well supported on big-endian systems anyway, so I would probably try swapping the card with a Radeon one. The nVidia (nouveau) drivers are part of the kernel and if you install Xorg, the Xorg driver package for nouveau - xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - is installed automatically, so that shouldn't be the issue. It might be worth capturing the kernel and Xorg log files and report the issue to the Xorg graphics driver bug tracker. > I'd like to thank everyone for the work, especially John Paul. Those of us > that are complete novices wouldn't be able to use our mac's without all your > workl You're welcome ;-). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
