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Carl Hudkins wrote: |
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>Hi, all... |
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> I've done a very successful install of Gentoo on an old-world Mac, and |
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>almost everything works as I'd expect it to, with one major exception |
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>that prevents me from giving it away to a friend who has no computer: |
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>Nothing displays on the monitor except for something immediately upon |
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>startup that looks like a CPU register dump. Other than that, it's fully |
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>functional (well, unable to mount any Zip disk), and through some blind |
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>typing I set up SSH so that I can log in from my PC to do things. |
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> I have to admit, I'm stumped, as I've never had to deal with this kind of |
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>problem before. Dmesg doesn't show anything that jumps out at me, and I |
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>pretty much left the kernel video options at the defaults, I believe. I |
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>don't want to clutter the list by attaching a bunch of stuff right now, |
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>but if you have some suggestions about what to look at or send along, |
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>I'll be glad to do so. |
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>Thanks for any clues, |
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It might help if you explain a little about the hardware you are using - |
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What system is it? Does it have on-board video or is it supplied via a |
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PCI/AGP card (or both!)? If its a PCI card, what card is it? Are you |
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using any kernel arguments wih the program you are booting with? I think |
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you can type something like append video=0 or something to force the |
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video to work. |
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Hope with this extra info someone will be able to help! |
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Andrew McCall. |
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