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Debian Sarge Installation on Powermac 8600



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I've been trying to get Debian installed on a Powermac 8600 with the following specs:

Powermac 8600
256MB RAM
G4 400 Upgrade Card
ATI Radeon 7000 PCI
2GB + 1GB SCSI drives
/chaos/control model

I've been fighting with it for months. I can get the kernel to boot and have command-line access but X will not work properly. I have to use the ofonly option to get the video to work properly on boot but X never works and when it does the video is all crunched to half the screen. "dmesg" shows some conflicts with the onboard video and the radeon. I would like to be able to run the radeon with 3d support using DRI but so far I can't even really get X working.

I plan on installing a PCI SATA controller card eventually and I'm not opposed to using OS9 and BootX.

Does anybody have any pointers, step-by-step guides, anything at all on getting this setup working?

I'm going to start a fresh install once I get a response and go from there.
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