RS/6000 matroxfb display corruption
john-thomas richards <[email protected]>
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I am attempting to install on an RS/6000 with two power3 processors and a Matrox Mystique video card. The cd (2005.0; I also tried 2004.3) seems to boot properly (that is, without error messages on the text console). The framebuffer seems to work as I get two smiling penguins on the screen. The problem is the text on the monitor is garbled and/or backwards. For example, the text under the penguins appears to be Japanese or Chinese. If I type 'ls' I get what appears to be a directory listing: "[some strange symbol]SNARLBT." I think this is supposed to be TRANS.TBL. If I 'cd /' and 'ls' I get a mixture of Japanese/Chinese-appearing characters and directory names such as "toob", "toor", "nibs", and "emoh" instead of "boot", "root", "sbin", and "home". A couple hours with Google has not been enlightening. I am new to the PPC platform and new to Gentoo. Any ideas? -- john-thomas ------ A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) -- [email protected] mailing list