Re: Help! Install problem; simple solution?
On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:15 PM, deleteme wrote:
Just installed Squeeze (debian-6.0.4-powerpc-netinst.iso) on a
working New World iBook G3, and everything went smoothly until the
first boot up of the new system. After displaying the typical
sequence of line-by-line boot progress, the log-in screen was
presented to me in a completely jumbled fashion. It is unreadable,
though presumably it is asking for my username and password. No
hardware problem is suspected.
Now I'm stuck because I can't ascertain what the problem is, and I
won't be able to use any advice like "type this, click that, execute
such-and-such." Probably everything is working except this screen
glitch. What happened? What can I do? Is there a known fix without a
lot of "try this, try that" guesswork?
Thanks,
--Rob
Hi Rob,
Did you get this one solved?
Michel Dänzer's suggestion of switching to a text console with <ctl>-
<alt>-<F1> and running
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
or
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
should work for you.
I don't have an iBook, but I do have a couple of G4 tower machines
that have a similar problem. Usually hitting <ctl>-<alt>-<delete> to
restart the X server will fix it. You may need to enable that
keyboard shortcut when you do
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
HTH
Rick
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