mrjohnc
March 14th, 2009, 08:43 AM
good afternoon
i am tearing my hair out over this. i'm trying to install 8.04 on a powerbook g3 pismo (500mhz, 256 ram)
when i try to run the live cd the monitor goes out of sync, the screen is a party of moving diagonal lines. i've managed to get as far as using live vga=788 to get it to boot live 800x600. i start the installation but it freezes, i guess it doesn't like being 800x600. i'm fairly sure the hardware is ok because i got osx 10.4 working on it, which i can't use my wireless card on, stupid apple.
i tried the new 9.04 alpha and 8.10 with the non live install which installed ok but then when it had installed and it booted it went to stripy city again. i tried the ctrl,alt,- trick to get the resolution down but no dice. i guess it would be at the log in screen anyway.
it did the same when i tried to install fedora (which i don't really want, it was just to see) but was fine with ydl (don't want either). i guess it's a problem with the drivers thinking the screen can do higher resolution than it can, it can definately do 1024x768 but i just think the hz is wrong.
i've trawled google but can't find anyone with the same problem
any help would be super
thanks
i am tearing my hair out over this. i'm trying to install 8.04 on a powerbook g3 pismo (500mhz, 256 ram)
when i try to run the live cd the monitor goes out of sync, the screen is a party of moving diagonal lines. i've managed to get as far as using live vga=788 to get it to boot live 800x600. i start the installation but it freezes, i guess it doesn't like being 800x600. i'm fairly sure the hardware is ok because i got osx 10.4 working on it, which i can't use my wireless card on, stupid apple.
i tried the new 9.04 alpha and 8.10 with the non live install which installed ok but then when it had installed and it booted it went to stripy city again. i tried the ctrl,alt,- trick to get the resolution down but no dice. i guess it would be at the log in screen anyway.
it did the same when i tried to install fedora (which i don't really want, it was just to see) but was fine with ydl (don't want either). i guess it's a problem with the drivers thinking the screen can do higher resolution than it can, it can definately do 1024x768 but i just think the hz is wrong.
i've trawled google but can't find anyone with the same problem
any help would be super
thanks