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Mar 13, 2010

I have a Ibook G4 that I cannot install tiger to .. I have two problems...

1. When I start with a retail version of Tiger (at least that's what ebay said.) it shows me the grey apple, nice and sharp, and then the screen changes to a horrible, horrible 2 color black and white dithered image of two mighty mouses showing me to add batteries and turn it on. The installer hangs here without a mouse.

2. Since I have a USB mouse (not mighty) I plugged it in and the installation continues but it's still in the horrid black and white dithering (grayscale) that I got on the insert mouse screen.

I can barely read a thing it's that bad... just horrible dithered black and white.

It's not the screen because booting Arch Linux shows a perfect colored frame buffer and the folder with the question mark has proper colors.

Why is an Ibook G4 demanding that I install a mighty mouse to continue installation? How come the track pad will not do? (and yes the track pad does work.)

I bought this machine second hand is it possible that the system firmware is updated to a wrong version?

Because when I check the system info it says Powerbook6,7

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