Re: no video after install
On 2014-03-11 18:27 +0100, Jud Leonard wrote:
> I have a Power Mac G5 with NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB DDR
> SDRAM. The G5 also has 3GB of DRAM, an 80 GB disk in slot A, and a
> 500 GB disk in slot B. The big disk has MacOSX 10.5.8, which works
> fine.
>
> I installed Debian 7.4 on the smaller disk, using a netinst CD. The
> installation seemed to work fine, but when I booted Linux, my monitor
> (a Sony Multiscan 420GS) put up an error alert saying the input scan
> rate was out of range, on an otherwise blank screen. I tried another
> monitor, which displayed nothing. I repeated the installation, using
> “install video=ofonly”, with the same result.
You're probably best off asking on the debian-powerpc list. There has
been a thread for a similar problem recently[1].
> I would appreciate advice on how to debug this problem. TIA.
Try booting with the "video=TV-1:d" kernel parameter. If that does not
help, boot with "nomodeset".
Good luck,
Sven
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2014/03/threads.html#00001
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