Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Aldridge
boot even though the root filesystem was not on an > raid volume. > > This really may not be your issue, but the symptoms go in the same > direction, so I though I would bring it up. > > Best, > > Ryan > > On Thu 16 Aug 2012 12:27:21 AM CEST, Rick Thomas wrote: > >

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Michael Aldridge
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze"- Official powerpc NETINST Binary - 1 20120512-20:49 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: > > okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing &g

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Michael Aldridge
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives. Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal? On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Aldridge

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Michael Aldridge
also tried with an external keyboard, but that seemed as though it did not register keypresses. any other ideas? On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > > *Resent-From: *debian-user@lists.debian.org > *From: *Michael Aldridge &

PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Aldridge
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the FW800, it could be the one immediately following that model), I decided to install debian and then a WM such as LXDE, to better use the hardware. I downloaded, burned

Re: Intel 82830 in motion computing slate

2012-05-31 Thread Michael Aldridge
I got it working but I have no idea how. After a couple of reboots it started working... On May 31, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/31/2012 12:10 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: >> I went ahead and retried disabling mode setting with grub, but still no >> graphics.

Intel 82830 in motion computing slate

2012-05-30 Thread Michael Aldridge
I am working with a motion computing m1200 series slate computer which uses the intel 82830 graphics card. I have tried the following things to make it work disable KMS use VESA manually generate the xorg.conf file and mess with it generally reinstall and see if it automagically configures I sho