YDL 4 post-install lockup on PB g4

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Hmmm... [scratch, scratch, scratch]

I know that:
(1) G4 PB's use either an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 or ATI Mobility
Radeon 9700.

(2) There is no support in either the boot or installed kernel for
graphics boards with the nVidia Riva/Geforce chips:

	# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
	# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_I2C  is not set

(3) There is no support for the "old" radeon card:

	# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD is not set

(4) There is support for the "new" radeon card:

	CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
	CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y

(5) I don't know the difference between 'old' and 'new' radeon cards.

(6) The kernel configuration help says that you don't need either radeon
driver in plain VGA mode.

With my G4 PowerMac with a GeForce2 MX card and an LCD monitor I ran
into the same problem. I had to physically disconnect the Apple Cinema
Display from the box  and connect a VGA monitor to get the USB FS to
load.

It would be nice if someone from Terrasoft would jump in on this.


-Joseph

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On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:40, Robert Story wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:05:58 -0500 Joseph wrote:
> JESPD> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 23:56, Robert Story wrote:
> JESPD> > I've got a titanium PB g4 500, and the ydl 4 install on a new hard
> JESPD> > drive consistently locks up in the post-install stage.
> 
> JESPD> The problem is with the boot and install kernels currently being shipped
> JESPD> with YDL4.
> 
> Gave this a whirl, and the only change was that the install x startup detected
> the monitor type of my external monitor. The post-install still locked up in
> the same place.
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Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco at comcast.net>