Re: PowerBook G4 has video problems when booted

2009-01-09 Thread Peter Rooney
Shawn, If you're using yaboot, you can edit /etc/yaboot.conf to append something like "video=radeonfb" or "video=atyfb" to your boot arguments. read the man page (could be man 5 yaboot.conf on Ubuntu?) Three warnings apply: (i) make a backup. after editing, run ` ybin -t ' to test your n

PowerBook G4 has video problems when booted

2009-01-09 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Hi, I have a PowerBook G4 Titanium running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. When I reboot it it doesn't always set the graphics mode correctly. The yaboot starts and I can read the text but when it switches to graphics, I get a speculated dark blue screen. The computer (otherwise) seems to boot properly, at le