Graphics Error Booting Mac OS 9 Lives on Mac Mini G4

[BigxMac]

I'm trying to install Mac OS 9 Lives on my 1.5GHz Mac Mini G4 (PowerMac 10,2). I've burned this ISO to a disk and booted into it. Upon booting, the graphics look funky. The aspect ratio is super tall and the text and graphics are wavy and not legible. An error pops up on boot linked below saying something (hard to make out) like "The built-in rendering encountered a problem. Please consult service ?? for assistance." Upon pressing ok, it boots normally, but the graphics are too illegible for me continue. I am plugged into a 1080p monitor via DVI. I can reboot into Mac OS X Tiger and the graphics work normally. Anyone know what is causing this? It almost seems like the display is rendering as 1080x1920?

 

[mac57mac57]

I have a similar issue on my G4 Cube. The "quick and dirty", if less than obvious, solution is to sleep the Mac and then bring it right back. Believe or not, that cures the video distortion and all is well until the next boot.

For reference, my Cube has a 32 MB nVidia graphics card... I am not at it right now, so I can't tell you a specific model.

 

[BigxMac]

I was able to find a form which other people have run into the same issue with 1080p and DVI in particular. I've ordered a DVI to VGA adapter and am going to try again once it comes in the mail.

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7048.0