Re: debian on imac G4?
On 16 Feb 2010, at 11.03, Clark Martin wrote:
That sounds like the usual Xorg problem. When you boot, at the
second stage boot (I think it says "type help..." hit tab type in
whatever term is marked with an asterisk (it may be just "Linux")
followed by a space followed by a "1". This should force it to
boot to a shell prompt.
It has Linux and old, neither with an asterisk, but Linux 1 does
bring me to the command line.
Try the following commands:
Xorg -configure
Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new
I guess it doesn't work. The second choice boots me into a screen of
very small black and white squares. Otherwise, i can only see an X
mouse cursor, which does move with the mouse. Had to kill the power
and reboot. I didn't do the next step since I'm pretty sure i don't
want this for my gui...
If that works, then try:
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
reboot
Anything more i can try to configure x?
A million thanks for your help!!
-bill
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