help with x server after installing ydl-4 on a b&w g3

[Daveran McCallum]

Thanks paul for your response. I work with programmers in IT and they are saying the same thing about the media possibly being corrupted and I can believe it  because i have downloaded various iso's trying to get past this problem with the video card. One of my coworkers told me to try and download and install ydl 5 and see if the latest version installs and I will be sure and check the media using the 'checksum' before install. I have been using osx to download and burn iso's so I'll find out if this is the prob.
On Saturday, March 03, 2007, at 10:53AM, "Paul Higgins" <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>I wish I could help with the X server part of your problem, but that's a 
>little over my head right now.  FWIW, I've never had an X server problem with 
>any version of YDL.  My most recent installs were on two iBooks: G3 and G4 
>models.  Both have ATI video cards, notorious for their lack of Linux support 
>(you can thank ATI for that).  You are installing the latest YDL (4.1), 
>right?
>
>Anyway, you should really check your media, because that's the first thing to 
>rule out.  If you still have the original ISOs on a hard drive somewhere, you 
>can check them from a terminal by simply typing "md5sum 
>[name_of_ISO_here.iso]" and hitting return.  This works on terminals in both 
>Linux and OS X.  I'm pretty sure that there's a way to check the ISO on a 
>burned CD, but I can't remember what that is.  Anyway, it's a good idea to 
>keep your original ISOs on a removable drive so that you can burn them for 
>friends, etc.
>
>I always check md5sums of ISOs I download, and then make sure that all burned 
>discs get verified after burning.  Then I know for sure that I can rule out 
>data corruption if there's a problem.
>
>One other thing: make sure you download the YDL install guide and print it out 
>so that it's available during an install.  It has some useful tips. 
>
>-PRH
>
>On Saturday 03 March 2007 11:50, Daveran McCallum wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I successfully install in " safe" on my b&w g3, and after rebooting I get
>> "ioctl" failed message and am prompted to let "x server" diagnose the
>> issue. I select it and I am looped to a host login screen after "x" tells
>> me it will turn it  off . I work with some computer hardware, server and
>> software "geeks" and they all tell me to type commands like
>> "video=vesafb:mtrr3,ywrap" or "video=vesa:mtrr3,ywrap," and then whatever
>> the screen resolution is for my monitor. I try all and get "invalid
>> command", so I need assistance if any is available to fix this issue. I
>> have been searching on line for fixes for this, but most of the posts are
>> specific for their situations and none of these have worked for me. Not to
>> mention I cannot get Ubuntu, CentOs or fedora4,5 or 6 to install in
>> "graphic" or"text" mode. These are all iso cd's and I naven't tried to
>> check the autenticity using the "linux mediacheck" option because I cannot
>> get that command to work, and it's probably because I am in th e wrong
>> place on the install screen to do this. Any help would be appreciated much.
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>> Dev
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