Please install the following packages via SSH with dpkg -i as root:mechanic wrote:That is good advice, but I'm not done tinkering yet.
Today I installed only the base system and it works. Then the xorg packages and it still booted and I could do normal terminal things. When I installed xfce or gnome is when everything went to hell, and that is before starting X.
I should have gone for a bike ride.
xserver-xorg-core_1.12.4-6+deb7u6_powerpc.deb
xserver-xorg-video-radeon_6.14.4-8_powerpc.deb
xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.14.4-8_powerpc.deb