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I am attempting to install on an RS/6000 with two power3 processors and |
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a Matrox Mystique video card. The cd (2005.0; I also tried 2004.3) |
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seems to boot properly (that is, without error messages on the text |
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console). The framebuffer seems to work as I get two smiling penguins |
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on the screen. The problem is the text on the monitor is garbled and/or |
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backwards. For example, the text under the penguins appears to be |
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Japanese or Chinese. If I type 'ls' I get what appears to be a |
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directory listing: "[some strange symbol]SNARLBT." I think this is |
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supposed to be TRANS.TBL. If I 'cd /' and 'ls' I get a mixture of |
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Japanese/Chinese-appearing characters and directory names such as |
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"toob", "toor", "nibs", and "emoh" instead of "boot", "root", "sbin", and |
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"home". A couple hours with Google has not been enlightening. I am new |
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to the PPC platform and new to Gentoo. Any ideas? |
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john-thomas |
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only |
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exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess |
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from the public treasury. |
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Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) |
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