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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:01:11PM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote: |
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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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It appears this is a bug that has been fixed (#88074). It also appears |
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that I need to better refine my search terms. :-) |
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john-thomas |
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