Fedora on Powerbook

[Bryan Elliott]

Elliot Lee wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Bryan Elliott wrote:
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>>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?
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>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...
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>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. :)
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>Best,
>-- Elliot
>You can accomplish anything you want, so long as you don't care who gets credit for it.
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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