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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have an iMac G5 revC (PowerMac 12,1) that w</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">as up and running with 2008.0 (linux kernel 2.6.24).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Recently upgraded</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> kernel to 2.6.27 and have an issue</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (used the g5_defconfig to do the build)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The new kernel is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">booting fine except that the iMac console/terminal does not refresh / update / render.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I can ssh into the system</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> can even use the consoles keyboard to login (as long as</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> do not make any typos).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">But the main computer screen (console/terminal) just sits there with kernel debug info</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> that was getting sent to it before</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">whatever</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> event causes it to stop working.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Any ideas where to look</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> where to begin</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> to get my screen back? Need to run an Gnome/K</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">DE</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> UI.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Raul</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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