PowerMac G4 17" and YDL 3.0.1 and 3.0 pr oblems

[Pierre Jomain]

I think it's not a good idea to install YDL on you're PowerBook,  
because YDl doesn't supply power management for this computer
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Pierre-Olivier Jomain
mailto:pojomain@free.fr


On Jan 9, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Devaney Michael wrote:

> Hi all,
>   Ive got a new PowerBook G4 17" and I want to use YDL on it.  I got  
> the
> ISOs for version 3.0 and the install seemed to go on fine (albeit in  
> textual
> mode - not graphical) until the reboot, where my powerbook booted  
> straight
> into MacOS X - yaboot didnt seem to install or work or whatever. So  
> Question
> 1 is what they heck is the problem?  Do I have to press or hold some  
> keys to
> get yaboot to work with YDL 3.0?
>
> Anyway, I couldnt work out why it wouldnt work, so I downloaded the YDL
> 3.0.1 ISOs and tried again.  This time YDL installed fine and yaboot  
> worked
> too - BUT the screen was all horribly flickery and i was getting text
> shadows all over the screen.  It was flickery all the way through
> installation, and also at command prompts and in X.  So Question 2 is,  
> why
> does it do this? And how do I fix it?  I didnt get any flickering when  
> I
> tried to install YDL 3.0, what has changed that makes my screen  
> flicker? :(
>
> This link describes a bit more of the problem
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003- 
> Novembe
> r/010748.html
>
> Please help chaps,  I havent found much on this problem on the web at  
> all.
>
> TIA,
>   Mike.
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