G5 Woes

[Aaron Johnson]

Stephen,
Have you tried the install-text option?  This may allow you to get the 
system installed then debug the graphics issues from a full system, if 
they still exist.

Also the Apple Cinema Display has not always been fully supported under 
YDL so you want to try a different monitor also.

Aaron

Stephen Donahue wrote:
> I recently acquired a dual 2.7ghz G5 and have since been attempting to
> install YDL version 6.0 (with little success). My plan is to dual boot
> linux / osx.
>
> My problem, I cannot begin the install process. The machine will boot
> to the optical drive and load the bootloader. From there, everything
> goes downhill.
> I arrive at the "check media" screen (it verifies the disk integrity
> successfully). Once I proceed to the actual installer the computer
> suffers horrific graphical issues
> The screen image becomes distorted, warped etc. At this point I am
> unable to proceed. I found a tip online which stated that I should
> lower the monitor resolution to 800x600.
> However, as soon as I get to the check media screen the monitor
> reverts to its native resolution (see below)
>
> My Hardware:
>
> dual 2.7ghz G5 PPC
> 2 GB DDR SDRAM (two 1 GB PC3200U-30330 sticks)
> ATI Radeon 9650 (AGP with 256 megs vram)
> 20 inch apple cinema display
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