Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

2005-09-25 Thread nova
Hello, I'm Sik and I want to ask you some questions: I have a PbG4 867MHz 12 (with a nvidia) and I can't have running the airport and MOL. Your TI-Book have a radeon or a nvidia? Because I only can take 8bits of color with MOL and I can see any thing. The second one is about the airport,

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Boot trouble

2005-10-13 Thread nova
I have installed Gentoo linux on an slotloading iMac and it works OK. The one problem is the kernel. I have tried numerous recompiles, and it gives this error: mounting /dev for udev... [oops] mount failed with error: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on udev, or too many mounted

[gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still

2005-10-25 Thread nova
OK, I didn't have the devfs loaded into the kernel, so the new version boots past that point. However, the boot stops when it tries to load the root filesystem. warning, no fsck.ext3 found. Error: mounting an ext2 partition failed on /dev/hda7 (a little different wording), Bad superblock, etc type

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still

2005-10-28 Thread nova
I have attached fstab. It has the paritions configured with root = /dev/dha7 ext3, which is correct. I ran the e2fsck (because it said that is had been over 12000 days since the last test, due to not resetting the clock), and it reported no problems, 1.1% fragmentation. What should I be using

[gentoo-ppc-user] mounting USB flash disk

2005-12-10 Thread nova
I am running Gentoo linux and have had problems mounting USB flash drives. I was wondering if someone could give me steps on how to mount (the device shows up on /proc/bus/usb/devices as Crucial Gizmo, and says: T: Bus: 02 Lev=01 Port=00 Cnt=-1 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(ifc )

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] mounting USB flash disk

2005-12-11 Thread nova
and the root hubs (ID :) Thanks nick Am Sonntag 11 Dezember 2005 17:07 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am on a powerbook G4 800mhz and it is plugged into the back of the computer (port 2). Does anyone know how to solve this problem? thanks nick First, next time, please start a

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] mounting USB flash disk

2005-12-11 Thread nova
Sorry, links ate the rest of my message. syslog-ng dies with bad config file hotplug usb: Bad USB agent invocation, no action and dmesg still only shows the keypresses (I got rid of Kernel hacking- debugging). I also added SCSI multi-LUN support, HD support, and general device support. USB mass

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] mounting USB flash disk

2005-12-11 Thread nova
This also fails (with same error 'Error initalizing configuration, exiting.'). I am having trouble with dbus/hald/dcop, and those are required for XFCE/GNOME/KDE and metalog. I was thinking that metalog instead of syslog-ng would work, but I guess not... nick Hello Nick, please start syslog-ng

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] mounting USB flash disk

2005-12-11 Thread nova
here is the dmesg output I finally got from booting. Thanks so much, nick Hello Nick, please start syslog-ng -d on a command line, so that you see debug messages. Best reagrds Joerg Am Sonntag 11 Dezember 2005 20:52 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, links ate the rest of my message.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] mounting USB flash disk

2005-12-11 Thread nova
I finally just unmerged syslog-ng and reemerged it, but it still had the same error. It also failed on both with both /dev/tty12 and /dev/console. syslog-ng -s /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf;echo $? returns 0 :-( I ran lsusb -vv and I have attached the output (minus flashdrive serial number)