Screen Messed on Yellow Dog Boot

[russ_c]

Hey,

I am new to Linux and have just installed Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 on a clean hd on my Mac G4. When I booted into YDL for the first time when the GUI login screen came up everything was all Messed up and scribbled like the horizantl sync and/or vertical sync of my monitor are messed up.

When I installed YDL found both my monitor and video card just fine, but I suspect this has something to do with an incorrect setting for one or booth items.

How can I get into a text based login from start up and then how do I change the settings/ trouble shoot this problem from commandline?? Oh, I hear that YDL is a PowerPC port of RH and works the same, so any RH experts who know what to do?

Thanks for everyones patients,

Russell

[terets]

Ok, this may not be that much of help, but I'm not sure. I haven't installed YDL in a long time on my iMac. It was a G3. I had little to no problems with it, and it basically worked from the get go (thank goodness).

However, I don't belive that YDL is supported that well at all anymore. In fact, I think it was a very crappy distro overall, and was the reason I stopped using it.

However, Gentoo now has a version out for PPC. It gives you MUCH more control over just about everything on your system.

I'd reccomend giving it a shot on your box. http://www.gentoo.org

The documentation there is EXCELLENT and they support you 100%.

Just to let you know, YDL is not quite a direct port of Red Hat. The installer is much different as the architecture is a lot different on a mac.

I'm sorry for not helping you out so much, but my prior experience was very distasteful of YDL.