Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images
On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 18:35 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello Peter!
>
> On 3/30/22 18:04, Peter van Zaanen wrote:
> > After following these steps, and with the latest image from
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
> > which installs fine btw, the screen stays blank.
>
> What kind of VGA adapter does this machine have? Is it actually an
> Radeon
> GPU or something different?
lspci shows: VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RV280/M9+ [Mobility Radeon 9200 AGP] (rev 01)
My iBook is this 12" G4:
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/specs/ibook_g4_1.2_12.html
Peter
>
> FWIW, I tested these images on my personal iBook G4 and after
> installing
> the AMD firmware package, updating the initramfs (which normally
> happens
> automatically when installing the package) and updating GRUB, the
> graphical
> environment worked fine for me.
>
> It's very important that /boot/grub is mounted read-write before
> trying to
> run update-initramfs and update-grub.
>
> Adrian
>
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