Subject: Re: 9500 install has proceeded to video problem
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 23:11:18 MDT
This was the same problem I was having, but aparently the monitor you
are using is not supported, and the No Video Driver option doesn't
work the way it's supposed to.
--- Sean
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Gus S Calabrese wrote:
> I have a 9500/132 with 128M RAM. First drive is 2G with MacOS 8.1
> 400M is available on this drive.
> Second drive (internal SCSI) is 8.4G formatted OS standard. (named "Linux")
>
> Boot X installer ran correctly.
>
> Now when I start the 9500 and choose Linux, I briefly get some text
> and then an out of sync display that looks like it might include a
> penguin.
>
> I tried
>
> 1) video =atyfb:vmode:6 kernel vmlinux ramdisk-x11.image.gz
> force video settings
> 2) no video driver kernel vmlinux ramdisk-text.image.gz
>
> same effect for both
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