Fedora on Powerbook

Bryan Elliott redhat at zoinkz.com
Wed Jun 15 20:53:18 UTC 2005


Bryan Elliott wrote:

> Elliot Lee wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Bryan Elliott wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I just got Fedora Core 4 loaded on my powerbook. So once it boots up 
>>> initializes the hardware and then the screen goes black and I can't 
>>> get it to do any thing else. I know that it is in the config for the 
>>> video but how do I get to a place that I can fix it?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Boot it into text mode ('linux 3' at the yaboot prompt) and it shouldn't
>> start X. If that doesn't help, it may be a problem with the framebuffer
>> console...
>>
>> In the future it would help to have more details on your hardware to aid
>> in diagnosing the problem. Tell us things like what video card and 
>> CPU it has. :)
>>
>> Best,
>> -- Elliot
>> You can accomplish anything you want, so long as you don't care who 
>> gets credit for it.
>>
>>  
>>
> It is a powerbook 17 with the following specs
>
>     1.67GHz PowerPC G4 processor
> •     512MB memory
> •     100GB hard drive
> •     8x SuperDrive (DVD+-RW/CD-RW)
> •     10/100/1000 Ethernet
>
> ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700
>
So I started it up with Linux 3 and that got me up in text mode so then 
I ran system-config-display and now I am back at that black screen.




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