"no screens found"

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Use the 4.0.1 discs, and type install-safe at the boot: prompt. That
should get it to install. Once it's installed, you can wrestle with it
until X11 works.

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:05:03 +0000, jimhoward32 wrote:

> Hello, please someone help (or I'll cry).
> 
> We just bought Yellow Dog (4.0.1)from Terra Soft a few days ago.  We tried many times to install it (on an eMac PowerPC G4 that is about a year old).  When that didn't work, we tried installing 4.0.  We always get the same error after Anaconda starts running off the first installation disk:
> 
> Using config file: "/tmp/XF86Config.test"
> Parse error on line 71 of section Monitor in file /tmp/XF86Config.test
> 
> The VertRetfresh keyword must be followed by a list of numbers or ranges [....]
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> And then it exits the installation and tells us to reboot.
> 
> Can someone tell us what is wrong.  We were under the impression that Yellow Dog was supposed to install on standard Mac Hardware - did we miss something in the fine print?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim (and his son Jay, who already has to re-install all his games)
> 
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