[all variants] howto use Live CD when no GUI appers

hey have been active linux user about 20 year with various distro
and has for years had sometimes problems to use Live CD to work with GUI, some mac it works without problems
but with nvidia cards, it becomes worse every distro upgrade,
etc.

This is one way to get the GUI to work with framebuffer

start live CD and wait for the boot prompt and write

live video=offb:off nouveau.modeset=0 single

each command with spaces

and wait one about 5 minutes until the CD stops and you write in the dark

code
modprobe nvidiafb mode_option=1024x768-16

then the CLI works

code
Xorg-configure

give you a xorg.conf if you need one later

code
start lightdm

and you have a working live cd


a couple of things that can be helpful to know at least in my case
with an IMAC G4 Globe 800 WITH Live cd

Lubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 cant i get working with toram

live video=offb:off nouveau.modeset=0 toram single

Ubuntu 12.04 it works with toram but you need to have
like 768 MB of RAM and swap active

Sound works
Suspend works

mode_option=1024x768-16
can be other values

and this is a simpler driver for nivida card

hope it helps someone



and dont forget read
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ