frame buffer ioctl failed-exiting

[Michael J Flaherty]

 > Well, to answer my own question, sort of.. :-)
 >
 > I went into the system prefs in OSX and changed the monitor  
resolution to 1024x768 (was set to 1152x768), and tried again.
 >
 > There was the same error, but it didn't freeze this time, and  
finished the configuration.
 >
 > I still don't know why it froze the first time, but at least it's  
working now. :-)
 >
 > Carol
 >
 > bein limited <beinltd at yahoo.com> wrote: Has anyone seen this  
error?  It happens as YDL is performing post install configuration.   
It gets to 50% then freezes.  I did a text install to see what the  
error > > was and it gives the following message:
 >
 > Framebuffer ioctl failed. Exiting.
 >
 > but just freezes there.  I did notice during the initial probe  
that it lists the monitor as unknown.
 >
 > Any help would be greatly appreciated!  I'm trying to install YDL  
4.1 on a G4 powerbook, 400 MHz, 384MB RAM

 > Thanks!
 > Carol

Hi all,

I'm having exactly the same problem as Carol did (found post in  
archive), only changing my video to 1024x768 in OS X did not help at  
all.  Is there an argument I could pass to the kernel at boot that  
would prevent this ?

Other workaround ?

Yaboot does not get installed prior to the installer hanging...

Ti-Book 400 with OS 9.2&10.2.8.

TIA,

Mike F