Re: installing debian on an: Apple PowerBook G4 550 (Gigabit - Ti)

[Gunther Furtado <gunfurtado@gmail.com>]

2009/9/2 sergio sevillano <sergiosevillano.mail@gmail.com>:
> Rogério Brito escribió:
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> Can i get to the console from yaboot?
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> After the blank screen you should be able to switch to console with
> Ctrl+Alt+F1.
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> Yes, this would usually work. I'm too lazy to check the documentation on
> how to use magic SysRq on an Apple keyboard, though.
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> http://www.answers.com/topic/ctrl-alt-del
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> i have tried all combinations of keys you guys have told me,
> with ctrl-alt-del seems to change in brightnes a lot.
>
> so my feeling still is that all works fine, but i just can not see it.
> so i would have to type blind all commands to change settings,
> wich looks quite hard to achieve.
>
> i think i need to restart form the begining, if theres no better idea
>
> if  i have a clean debian again with no desktop at all as i had,
> then i can configure it from the console before installing any desktop.
>
> what do you think?

Before beginning from scratch, you could type something like Linux
single which would take you to a single user (no graphics) session.
Then you could try to copy a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf from a
pendrive ordownloading it using

# wget http://theapt.org/openbsd/xorg.conf

for instance then

# X

then if all goes OK

Ctrl+Opt+Backspace

>
> thanks for the help so far to all,
> sergio
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>

cheers,

-- 
Gunther Furtado
Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil
gunfurtado@gmail.com

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