Am I the only guy trying to Sarge an iMac?

[radiojohn]

Hmmmm. I'm assuming PPC is Power PC. I got sick of this dumb iMac sitting in my room, as I have been using Windows and Linspire/Xandros. Decided to fire it up with Debian Sarge. Used net install on my DSL and installed x-Windows, but the screen went blank. Must have tried to get clever with the choice of driver and got it wrong.. Any hints on this?

I'm starting from scratch. John

[amgeex]

Um... Boot with the expert parameter and don't install anything. Install everything you want later with apt-get. Anyway, you should do this right after finishing the sarge installation (as root):

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

then:

apt-get install x-window-system

After that configure x and when it asks you to chose a diver select the Vesa driver. I'm sure this will solve your problems. Also try to get the vertical and horizontal synch ranges your imac's screen uses.

Cheers and good luck!

[leonpmu]

I used a live-cd of kubuntu ppc on my iMac, worked great...

[ph34r]

Installed debian -testing on my iMac last year, no problems at all. Used the ppc netinstall cd image.

[Davy]

when i tried debian ppc, my x server was a blank screen also. i just googled other xorg.conf files and found one that was setup for my imac and it worked fine.