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

[William M. Quarles]

On 1/10/2010 7:52 PM, William M. Quarles wrote:
> On 1/10/2010 11:22 AM, François Cami wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:31:07 -0500
>> "William M. Quarles"<walrus at bellsouth.net>   wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Do you know what kind of Radeon this is? I think it could be anything
>> within 7000/7500/8500 models.
>
> Nope, and I think I'll need the OS up and running in order to check.
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Try booting the installer with "linux vesa".
>
> I did, and it failed to start the X server with the vesa driver.
> However, it did fall back to text installation, and I completed that.
>
>> Once you've installed F12 successfully, please run "yum update" and
>> reboot. If the radeon drivers still don't work, please try the
>> xorg* libdrm* mesa* packages from updates-testing
>> (yum -y --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg* libdrm* mesa*).
>> If these don't solve the problem, please report the bug at
>> bugzilla.redhat.com after searching for similar issues.
>
> I would try that, except I can't get the computer to boot off of the
> hard drive after installation is complete! I used two 40GB hard drives
> that I extracted out of a typical i686 machine in order to carry out the
> installation, I put the Apple disklabels on them using parted, and
> carried out the installation, but now it won't boot! Am I missing a step
> here?

François (and others),

I was able to get the computer to boot after I pressed and held 
Alt-FunnyKey-p-r. ifup eth0 works, but for some reason I'm still not 
accessing the Internet. It seems that the system fails to seek an IP 
address for some reason. Any ideas?

Thanks,
William