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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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When I installed Gentoo on my PM 7300 a few months back, I ran into this |
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same problem. I seem to remember it being because I didn't have |
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framebuffer support enabled in the kernel. Or maybe it was I had the |
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wrong framebuffer enabled or was specifying the wrong video driver on |
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the kernel command line. I can't quite remember. |
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Andrew Gaffney |
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