Switching To Graphical Mode After Text Based Install - Sony PS3 Repair Manual

Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 Installation
monitors. Sometimes the picture will be stretched vertically to get it to fit the screen. On LCD monitors
this usually results in less than optimal displays.
CRT based televisions are typically the only monitor type that can show interlaced modes well. Others
will do some sort of conversion to display interlaced modes, and a lot of these conversion methods
don't work well with typical computer displays. If you end up with ugly, hard to read fonts, you may be
suffering from this problem. Best to stick with the progressive scan modes.
The choice between YUV and RGB will only affect the colors. If the colors are all weird when you try
the default YUV, try changing to RGB.
The choice between overscan and fullscreen doesn't actually change the resolution. The default
overscan mode will restrict all output to the central part of the display, with black borders around all
four edges. Fullscreen mode uses all of the display. The problem is that televisions often only show the
central part, which makes overscan the better choice for those televisions. Computer monitors usually
can handle fullscreen. A big problem is that the overscan region is not exact, some adjusting of your
televisions horizontal and vertical controls will be needed to get the best result.
It may be that you need to try any particular video mode using the GameOS first before it will work
with Linux. This is still being investigated.
Advanced : the variations are set by the upper bits in the mode number that is actually sent to the
graphics hardware, and there are some undocumented bits. While they didn't seem to have any affect
during our testing, they may work for you. DVI is bit 0x0040, and HDCP_OFF (ps3videomode -H) is
bit 0x1000.

6. Switching to Graphical Mode after Text Based Install.

At the "localhost login" prompt, enter "root". Press [ENTER]
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At the root password (this was set during installation) and press [ENTER]
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Via the command line interface which you have just entered, download the Xautoconfig
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program:
wget http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/Xautoconfig-0.23-
2.ydl.2.ppc.rpm [ENTER]
Install this RPM:
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rpm -ivh Xautoconfig-0.23-2.ydl.2.ppc.rpm [ENTER]
Type Xautoconfig and press [ENTER]. It will create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and set it up with
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the parameters necessary to run a graphical system.
Edit the file /etc/inittab. Look for the line that reads:
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