Trouble with graphics on installing Fedora 12 ppc (early PowerMac G4)

[Clark Martin]

William M. Quarles wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having trouble with using the Fedora 12 installation CDs on my 
> new-old PowerMac G4 that I have acquired. It has a ATI Radeon AGP card 
> installed, and I'm using a DVI connection to my monitor. Once I get to 
> the graphical install screen, the installation program's box on the 
> screen is totally scrambled. The mouse cursor, oddly enough, looks 
> perfect. I know that on the i386 distribution I had to use the basic 
> video drivers on some of my computers. Is the same true for Fedora 12 on 
> the PPC? If so, how do I enable the basic video drivers for 
> installation? I've tried booting the installation kernel with "linux 
> nomodeset" per a Common F12 bug, but alas nothing different happened.

I ran into what sounds like the same problem on a Pismo.  I think I used 
the 'usefbx' boot parameter to get it to work.  You might also try 
'xdriver=vesa'.