"no screens found"

[Frederick C.Lee]

Just a wild guess from a Neophyte.

It appears that the installation doesn't recognize the eMac's monitor.  
Perhaps you're missing the appropriate monitor driver.  Just out of 
curiousity, I wonder if you could attach an extra monitor (if you have 
the port to do so) and reboot...the installation program would detect a 
new peripheral and try to map it against what it understands.

In the meantime, perhaps Apple can help you determine where your driver 
is.    I think that's the crux of the problem.

1) Attach an exterior monitor or
2) Speak with the Linux techos about eMac monitors.    I seems like an 
obvious bug that should be easily remedied.

Ric.

On Mar 27, 2005, at 10:05 AM, <jimhoward32 at charter.net> 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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