Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Can I force USB drives' device name?

2005-05-04 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Wed May 4 2005 02:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: With suitable udev rules, you can name them anything you like, say /dev/ floppy and /dev/jumpdisk. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml and http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php [skims intro] That looks like exactly what I was

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] convert ext3 - hfs+

2005-05-06 Thread Daejuan Jacobs
On 5/3/05, lincr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] convert ext3 - hfs+ From: Jon Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:52:38 +0100 To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Linux cannot handle HFS+ in any way. I'm not even sure that HFS+ is 'open'

[gentoo-ppc-user] test

2005-05-14 Thread Charles Read
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[gentoo-ppc-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6,2)...newbie needs help

2005-05-14 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody! I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio'

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6, 2)...newbie needs help

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, May 14, 2005 6:49 pm, Charles Read said: I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6, 2)...newbie needs help

2005-05-14 Thread Charles Read
Thanks for the write back! I compiled that as part of the kernel and not a module, yet nothing is detected at startup and /proc/asound/cards shows nothing... how did you get it working? How can I test to make sure that it is in the kernel? or does the fact that were having this convo say that?

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Unable to boot Linux 2.4 on iBook G4

2005-05-19 Thread Praveen C
My experience with my previous thinkpad is that the laptop runs cooler with a 2.4 kernel than 2.6. My iBook runs rather hot for a 1.2 GHz processor, 46-48C even when the system is practically idle. The hard-disk is particularly hot at ~50C. Hence I want to try the 2.4 kernel and see if it makes

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Unable to boot Linux 2.4 on iBook G4

2005-05-20 Thread Praveen C
I have used speedfreq but I did not notice any difference on the cpu temperature. I did not know that pbbuttonsd could control cpu frequency. I cannot find anything in the man pages. My iBook G4 is runnig 2.6 and I am (almost) absolutely happy with it. Most important is that it is put to sleep

[gentoo-ppc-user] Temperature and Fan speed display for iBook G4

2005-05-20 Thread Praveen C
Is there any way to display CPU temperature and Fan speed in Gkrellm ? Or any other way to display it on screen ? I have tried torsmo without any success. I get following error. torsmo: unknown variable adt746xcpu torsmo: unknown variable adt746xcpu torsmo: can't open

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Temperature and Fan speed display for iBook G4

2005-05-20 Thread toriet
hi! I don't use torsmo, I use this script: echo echo # CPU echo -n Temp CPU : cat /sys/devices/temperatures/cpu_temperature echo -n Fan speed : cat /sys/devices/temperatures/cpu_fan_speed echo -n Temp limit: cat /sys/devices/temperatures/cpu_limit echo -n Freq CPU

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] mouseemu does not compile

2005-05-23 Thread Markus Moebs
* Colin Leroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-23]: On Mon, 23 May 2005 16:02:05 +0200 Markus Moebs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... what can I do? I have uinput compiled in my kernel and I have already tried compiling it as a module, but that did not help. Could it be that mouseemu is not

[gentoo-ppc-user] testmail

2005-05-24 Thread Ulbing Stephan
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Kernel panic booting minimal iso on dual G5

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello I just picked up a dual G5 (the 2.7 GHz flavor) and I'm interested in running gentoo on it as well as OS X. I've been using x86 and x86_gentoo for quite some time now (back since 1.2). However the ppc64 minimal iso from the mirrors gives a kernel panic during bootup on this hardware,

[gentoo-ppc-user] Where to set console blanking timeout?

2005-05-31 Thread Chris L. Mason
Hi, I have gentoo working okay on my iMac G5 (ppc64), but I cannot figure out how to change the default screen blanking timeout. After 10 minutes the screen goes blank, and if I hit any key it comes back. Can someone please tell me where I need to change this setting? Is it an option I need to

[gentoo-ppc-user] openoffice

2005-06-02 Thread Peter Kiraly
Hello there! This time I try this forum. ;) So more user can learn from my mistakes... My problem: I have tried to emerge openoffice (1.1.4-r1), but somehow it did not work. I tried three times: first, after four hours of compiling had a failure, the second try locked the whole computer, the

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] openoffice

2005-06-02 Thread Peter Kiraly
Ok. I give up on this one... Have no sucsess :( A log file has benn created. If anyone interested, I can send it over. If it counts, my cflags settings: CFLAGS=-mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -O2 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -fsigned-char -pipe Thank you for your help! -- Best regards -

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] openoffice

2005-06-03 Thread Peter Kiraly
Ok. I have another story: In the mean time, tried to emerge Abiword. It had 7 dependents. All compiled nicely, only abiword failed. Some sort of seg.fault again. Then tried again (this time only abiword left to be compile) and wow... Success! If I'm right gcc is part of the toolchain. On my

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] openoffice - last question

2005-06-13 Thread David Holm
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 20:34 +0200, Peter Kiraly wrote: Hello there! I have updated the toolchain, and this time compiling openoffice went for ~10 hours... :) Then failed... :( There is only three packages yet 'who' failed out of 50... (Including openoffice) For my last chance I grabbed

[gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
Hi list, since i dont't know where else to ask this question i figured i might as well ask it here. i'm running gentoo on my tibook 550 (powerbook3,3 that is in kernelspeak) and noticed that with a 2.4 kernel as well as under macos the fan hardly ever kicks in, even when the computer gets quite

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan Bruda
At 19:27 +0200 on 2005-6-28 Colin Leroy wrote: As far as I know the fans are hardware controlled on these models, so the fans should not be affected by a kernel change... except that they do just that. Must be grmelins in there or something. echo 10

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan Bruda
At 21:03 +0200 on 2005-6-28 Colin Leroy wrote: These are Tibooks (as opposed to newer Alubooks) so they do not have software temperature control, no? mmh, I'm not sure right now. Try to load the therm_adt746x module. If it fails to load, you're right :) Oh, of course therm_adt746x

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Tue June 28 2005 16:34, Stefan Bruda wrote: Oh, of course therm_adt746x won't load, sorry for not mentioning it. There is as far as I know no option in the kernel config for thermal management on these machines. I am clueless as to why is the fan behaving differently, it simply shouldn't.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-29 Thread Alexander Meyer
On Di, Jun 28 2005 at 07:22:33 -0400, Carl Hudkins wrote: On Tue June 28 2005 16:34, Stefan Bruda wrote: Oh, of course therm_adt746x won't load, sorry for not mentioning it. There is as far as I know no option in the kernel config for thermal management on these machines. I am clueless

[gentoo-ppc-user] emerge linux-wlan-ng problem on ppc

2005-06-29 Thread Lincoln Rutledge
Howdy, I am done installing gentoo now. I had to install Ubuntu on another partition and install gentoo one step at a time over a couple of weeks. iBook 366, and can't boot from CDRs. I figured out how to tell emerge to build linux-wlan-ng against warnings with: export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~ppc'

[gentoo-ppc-user] live cd 2005.0-r4 on iMac G5

2005-07-01 Thread Holger Amann
Hi,I've tested live cd 2005.0-r4 and after a few lines of kernel messages the display became black. The last line I saw was something with "smp_cXX". But the system was still alive because I was able to bring up ethernet and sshd by typing sightlessly. It's an iMac G5 1.8 GHz from october

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] initializing gentoo on ibook 12

2005-07-05 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i8042.c: i8042 controller self test timeout. Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled Try turning off both of these driverss: Device Drivers - Character Devices - Serial Drivers 8250/16550 and compatible serial

[gentoo-ppc-user] powerbook 12 lcd+CRT

2005-07-16 Thread Matias Pablo Brutti
Hi , I recently got an Apple Powerbook 12 and I being trying to make the videoout to work with the CRT I manage to use the CRT in console mode , but when I go to the X , the xorg start on the laptop monitor and not on the monitor attached any idea why that could be happening ? Is there a way to

[gentoo-ppc-user] env-update

2005-07-22 Thread Peter Kiraly
Hello everybody! Recently there were several updates for portage. When I do env-update now, the output looks like this: pegasos peter # env-update source /etc/profile Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... pegasos peter # Before updating portage there was an extra line in the output too: * Caching

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] env-update

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Before updating portage there was an extra line in the output too: * Caching service dependencies... [ok] Now its gone. Things seems working ok, but I wonder if this is normal, or not... That's normal. rc automatically caches the dependencies now. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux

[gentoo-ppc-user] RS/6000 matroxfb display corruption

2005-07-25 Thread john-thomas richards
I am attempting to install on an RS/6000 with two power3 processors and a Matrox Mystique video card. The cd (2005.0; I also tried 2004.3) seems to boot properly (that is, without error messages on the text console). The framebuffer seems to work as I get two smiling penguins on the screen. The

[gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo?

2005-07-31 Thread Mike S
I am new to gentoo so first, let me say I am lovin it. However I am also new to a source distribution, so I may need a little leeway with the questions I ask. I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] can't emerge firefox on ppc

2005-08-01 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Holm wrote: Hello Alexander, could you please post the output from `emerge info`? here you go: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/ppc/2004.2, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc)

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo?

2005-08-01 Thread Mike S
Carl Hudkins wrote: On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote: I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I try to play a dvd my screen gets a yellowish tint, my teminals that may be open get distoted

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] can't emerge firefox on ppc

2005-08-01 Thread Mike S
Alexander Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Jezak wrote: Do you have kernel preemption on? If so turn it off. nope. it's off. btw i suspect this very kernel option to be responsible for massive heat-problems on my powerbook3,3 (which is a gen 2

[gentoo-ppc-user] Turning off HFS+ journaling

2005-09-17 Thread AJ Ashton
I would like to install Gentoo to a small partition on my iMac G5, preferably without killing OS X. In the Gentoo handbook, Preparing the Disks it says: Warning: parted is able to resize partitions. On the Installation CD there are patches included to resize HFS+ filesystem. Unfortunately it is

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Turning off HFS+ journaling

2005-09-17 Thread AJ Ashton
On 17/09/05, Rúni H. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use: diskutil disablejournal diskx Ex.: diskutil disablejournal disk0s3 Thank you very much, that did the trick! -- -AJ -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-ppc-user] fam-2.7.0-r2 fails to compile

2005-09-18 Thread Bryn Hughes
I don't seem to be able to compile fam-2.7.0-r2.  I'm running a powerpc system with the 2005.1 G3 profile. Output from 'emerge fam-2.7.0-r2' In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.4/include/g++-v3/bits/basic_ios.h:44,                 from

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

2005-09-22 Thread Nicholas S-A
Yes, it turns out that is the problem! The router somehow got misconfigured as 0.0.0.0 instead of 10.0.1.1. here is ifconfig: bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

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

2005-09-23 Thread Matti Bickel
Nicholas S-A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it turns out that is the problem! The router somehow got misconfigured as 0.0.0.0 instead of 10.0.1.1. here is ifconfig: [config eth0,eth1,lo,bond0,dummy0] They seem to be ok. and route -n: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway

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] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-02 Thread Joseph Jezak
Charles Trois wrote: Joseph Jezak a écrit : You need a framebuffer device in your kernel, Linux doesn't work on PPC without an FB. You should use the OpenFirmwareFB with an nVidia chipset. Thanks. I followed your advice, but it did not help: the problem remains. I take the liberty to

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-02 Thread Nicholas S-A
you need to enable support for IDE/ATA controller from apple under Device Drivers- ATA. there should be options based on Macintosh or Apple: IDE/ATA Disk support IDE/ATA Driver Mac Partition Support nick On Oct 2, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Charles Trois wrote: Mickael Royer a écrit : I see you have

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-06 Thread Guy Yasko
On 6.10.2005, Charles Trois stated: Joseph Jezak a écrit : If Mackael's suggestion doesn't help, let's try with nvidiafb and a newer kernel: It did not help, causing a kernel panic that I couldn't resolve. Give 2.6.14 a try (there are some release canidates for vanilla sources), apply

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Trois
Joseph Jezak a écrit : Can you put a kernel config up on the internet somewhere? Yes, certainly. I attach it here. Charles # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.14-rc3 # Thu Oct 6 15:38:26 2005 # CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y

[gentoo-ppc-user] Bootloader trouble

2005-10-12 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! Having had no success with the 2005.1 disk, I am trying to reinstall Gentoo from 2005.0 on my G4 iMac. This had been all right before, but now I am meeting bootloader trouble. At my first attempt, ybin warned me that your kernel is too old. I wonder what the reference is, since this

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

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Boot trouble

2005-10-14 Thread Rod Furey
On 13 Oct 2005, at 18:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mounting /dev for udev... [oops] mount failed with error: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on udev, or too many mounted filesystems since this is a critical task, startup cannot continue give root password for matienance or Control-D

[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

2005-10-25 Thread Joseph Jezak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. You shouldn't use devfs. It's obsolete. Which liveCD / stage are you installing from? Which profile are

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

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

2005-10-28 Thread Rod Furey
On 28 Oct 2005, at 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I be using instead of devfs? udev - I'd expect the newer profiles to use this by default... The battery on my iMac is stuffed as well. However when the system is shutdown it syncs the time with the h/ware clock so it's not too

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-11-06 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Charles Sorry, I looked wrong before. CC drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.o drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c: In function 'pmac_ide_setup_dma' 2174 error: '__ide_dma_off_quietly' undeclared 2175 error: '__ide_dma_on' undeclared 2184 error: '__ide_dma_timeout' undeclared You should set

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-11-07 Thread Gerardo Lisboa
Hi, Have you a separate boot partition using a ext2 fs? I found that to be the best way to boot using yaboot. I don't use it mounted on boot time but it is on fstab as /boot. The root fs is then anything you compiled statically on the kernel (or the initrd supports). Best luck. G. 2005/11/7,

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-11-07 Thread Charles Trois
Gerardo Lisboa a écrit : Hi, Have you a separate boot partition using a ext2 fs? No. The opinions that I read so far are rather against it, so that I did not plan to use one. Thanks all the same for your suggestion; I shall keep it in mind, just in case. Cheers. Charles --

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Trois
Matti Bickel a écrit le 11/11/2005 Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mounting /dev for udev The mount command failed with error: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on udev, or too many mounted file systems Please check if you compiled support for tmpfs in your kernel. The option

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-11-23 Thread Draeven
Charles Trois wrote: Charles, Did you do a rc-update add net.eth0 default so that the interface is brought up at boot? You may also want to take a look at this section of the Gentoo Handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=4 HTH Draeven Draeven a écrit :

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-12-01 Thread Charles Trois
Draeven a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: Charles, Did you do a rc-update add net.eth0 default so that the interface is brought up at boot? You may also want to take a look at this section of the Gentoo Handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=4 I am still

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-12-01 Thread Draeven
Did you remember to emerge a dhcpcd server? If not emerge dhcpcd Draeven Charles Trois wrote: Draeven a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: Charles, Did you do a rc-update add net.eth0 default so that the interface is brought up at boot? You may also want to take a look at this section of

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver

2005-12-01 Thread Draeven
I'm sorry, I mean a dhcp client, not a server, the dhcp server should already be on the network. The most popular and easiest client IMHO is dhcpcd. Like I said, emerge dhcpcd HTH Draeven Draeven wrote: Did you remember to emerge a dhcpcd server? If not emerge dhcpcd Draeven Charles

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Glibc pooched. Borked system.

2005-12-10 Thread darren kirby
quoth the David Bélanger: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:33:14PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: Did you try the glibc on the installation/Live CDs? If there is no packages, simply copy all the glibc files over and try it. I have the universal install disk. The glibc package here will just be source

[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] Glibc pooched. Borked system.

2005-12-10 Thread David Bélanger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:12:05PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: quoth the David Bélanger: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:33:14PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: Did you try the glibc on the installation/Live CDs? If there is no packages, simply copy all the glibc files over and try it. I have

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

2005-12-11 Thread Joerg Gollnick
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 new thread instead of replying to an

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 Joerg Gollnick
Hello Nick, I checked your syslog-ng.conf. The only difference is logging to /dev/console instead of /dev/tty12. Just give it a try. I suggest to solve the problems in the order as they appear while booting. So first of all you need an working syslog-ng. I installed version 1.6.8-r1 with default

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

2005-12-11 Thread Joerg Gollnick
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. syslog-ng dies with bad config file hotplug usb: Bad USB agent invocation, no

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)

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

2005-12-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:18 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally just unmerged syslog-ng and reemerged it, but it still had the same error. unmerging a package does not remove its config files in /etc, you need to remove /etc/syslog-ng before emerging it again. -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-ppc-user] Emerge yaboot troubles

2005-12-16 Thread Alex Decker
Hi all I did the emerge --usepkg --update yaboot It started downloading and compiling, and when it reached the last of the 18 or so packages, suddenly the screen went black, and in the left side of the screen, the letter 'y' is just printed over and over again. Anyone have any idea what to do

[gentoo-ppc-user] trackpad iScroll

2006-01-01 Thread JOAN MASSICH VALL
Hello, I wan't to know if it's possible use synaptics driver in a powerbook 12 867Mhz to do something like iScorll. Any of you have try it? How can I do it to know what toutchpad I have? thanks. -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-ppc-user] mac-fdisk

2006-01-13 Thread Dan Bush
I am installing Gentoo on a G4 and I am not going to boot a MacOS. Do I still need to partition with mac-fdisk or should I be using pmac-fdisk or simply fdisk?

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] How to come back to Mac OS?

2006-01-18 Thread Enlightened User
After booting the Installer, choose the Disk Utility from the Installer menu and repartition your disk. When done with the Disk Utility, the Installer will allow a new installation of Mac OS X. On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] imac xorg keyboard configuration @

2006-01-23 Thread Ivo Bellin Salarin
Jan Girlich wrote: Okay, I tried to use it. But actually I don't understand the way I need to set up my xorg.conf so taht xorg uses this special keymap. man xorg.conf couldn't help me. I tried this one. I was just guessing what I should do. Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] 3D-acceleration not working on old iMac

2006-01-26 Thread Joseph Jezak
(--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics controller detected. (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4750 GP, version 4, foundry UMC, class 0, revision 0x01. (--) ATI(0): PCI bus interface detected. (--) ATI(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected. You have a Mach64, not a Rage128. It's possible to use drm with that

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] liboil-0.3.7 compile problems

2006-02-08 Thread Joseph Jezak
Please file a bug in bugzilla and we'll fix it there, this looks like a new issue. -Joe -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] liboil-0.3.7 compile problems

2006-02-08 Thread Draeven Eriu
Bug submitted and resolved in portage today. Thanks Draeven Joseph Jezak wrote: Please file a bug in bugzilla and we'll fix it there, this looks like a new issue. -Joe

[gentoo-ppc-user] Udev events break ALSA?

2006-02-09 Thread Stefan Bruda
Hi, When I insert a USB PCMCIA card, and when I connect my Palm OS based PDA the annoying side effect is that ALSA dies and needs restarting. On the other hand this is not manifested when plugging in and out: USB mice, USB mass storage devices (into the built-in USB hub), USB printers. I do not

[gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976

2006-02-13 Thread Y-Lan Boureau
Hi,I've recently installed gentoo on a G4 TiBook and it's working fine.However, I have a couple of unresolved problems, one of which being, the system doesn't remember the date. I had entered the correct date when installing, but it always follow the system date instead (the date that

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976

2006-02-13 Thread Joseph Jezak
Try hwclock -systohc after you've set your system time. That should set the hardware clock for you. -Joe -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976

2006-02-13 Thread Christophe Choumert
On Monday 13 February 2006 13:36, Y-Lan Boureau wrote: Does anyone know a fix to this -- either, how I could set correct time and date in Open Firmware, or allow Linux to remember its own time and date ? The relevant option is in /etc/conf.d/clock : --- # If you want to set the Hardware

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976

2006-02-15 Thread Y-Lan Boureau
No, the battery is not dead - I've keeped the computer unplugged for hours a number of times, and time was still passing, moving from April 10th to April 11th and so on. What happened was I never gave a chance to the hardware clock to get back to 2006, after I resetted it to 1976 by zapping the

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[gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error

2006-03-26 Thread Flisk .
Hi folks, Here where I work we received a G4 computer and I started to install a Gentoo 2006.0. The computer is a G4 2 CPU's 512MB of memory 2 HD, I started to install Gentoo 2006.0 from stage 1 and everything gone well. I installed with cpu flag as G4 and O2. But when the computer restarted a

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error

2006-03-26 Thread Joseph Jezak
Flisk . wrote: Hi folks, Here where I work we received a G4 computer and I started to install a Gentoo 2006.0. The computer is a G4 2 CPU's 512MB of memory 2 HD, I started to install Gentoo 2006.0 from stage 1 and everything gone well. I installed with cpu flag as G4 and O2. But when

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error

2006-03-26 Thread Flisk .
Hi Joseph, I did this change but didin't solve the problem. The same error. Best regards. Fernando Simon On 3/26/06, Joseph Jezak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flisk . wrote: Hi folks, Here where I work we received a G4 computer and I started to install a Gentoo 2006.0. The computer is a G4 2 CPU's

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error

2006-03-27 Thread David Gurvich
I would suggest seeing what modules are loaded by the CD. As it happens, my current computer is a dual-G4 almost identical to the one described. I'll attach my .config to this message. On Sunday 26 March 2006 3:11 pm, Flisk . wrote: Hi folks, Here where I work we received a G4 computer

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error

2006-03-28 Thread David Gurvich
I used Xorgautoconfig to generate a working xorg.conf and modified for my specific system. On Tuesday 28 March 2006 12:23 pm, Flisk . wrote: Hi David, Thanks for your reply. But last nught I found the problem, was a kernel parameter. I defined the CUDA instead of PMU in Device

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Audio installation

2006-04-04 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Matthew On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:32:17AM +, Matthew Polashek wrote: I'm interested in making my Powerbook G4 1.5 17 a dual boot Gentoo Which model exactly? Also, I'd like to use a kernel with the Ingo Molnar realtime preemption patch. I don't know that specific patch, but

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Audio installation

2006-04-04 Thread Matthew Polashek
Hi! I've got the Powerbook 17 G4 1.5 Ghz model. I think apple only one with that monitor size and processor speed. I got the Video upgrade to 128 and upgraded the hard drive to 5400 rpm. Crappy. Is there a way to run audio apps safely on a PPC processor using Linux? There must be a way to do

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Audio installation

2006-04-04 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Matthew On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:02:19PM +, Matthew Polashek wrote: I've got the Powerbook 17 G4 1.5 Ghz model. I think apple only one with that monitor size and processor speed. Maybe, maybe not. It's not what I asked for. Read the output of grep machine /proc/cpuinfo. There

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Audio installation

2006-04-04 Thread Matthew Polashek
Hello Matthew On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:02:19PM +, Matthew Polashek wrote: I've got the Powerbook 17 G4 1.5 Ghz model. I think apple only one with that monitor size and processor speed. Maybe, maybe not. It's not what I asked for. Read the output of grep machine /proc/cpuinfo. There

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Audio installation

2006-04-05 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 4/4/06, Michael Hanselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Matthew On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:32:17AM +, Matthew Polashek wrote: I'm interested in making my Powerbook G4 1.5 17 a dual boot Gentoo Which model exactly? Also, I'd like to use a kernel with the Ingo Molnar realtime

[gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie question

2006-04-29 Thread Richard
have to start some where... coming form Mac OSX, and downloaded the ppc 32 bit installation and packages iso. of Gentoo 2006, burn two cd-r however, have a snag in the install, is there a how to install on Mac G4 , running a quicksilver with 512mb and a 60gb hard drive, and nvida 32mb video

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie question

2006-04-29 Thread David Gurvich
The suggested method of using the OS X installer to partition the hard drive would wipe out your files. You may want to back up your user directory first. On Saturday 29 April 2006 2:17 am, Richard wrote: have to start some where... coming form Mac OSX, and downloaded the ppc 32 bit

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] USB mouse; IN from bad port

2006-04-30 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: Hi folks, I have two problems. Hi Mark, 1) I have a beige desktop Power Macintosh G3 (old-world) with first-edition roms. Gentoo installs great, Only thing is, I have an ADB mouse and a USB mouse. The ADB mouse works

RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] USB mouse; IN from bad port

2006-04-30 Thread Mark M. Hart
Thanks, Joe! I'll check genkernel and get devices set and unset as you recommend. Any idea what device the port 1058 problem is connected with? Thanks! Mark M. Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joseph Jezak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 6:41

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] USB mouse; IN from bad port

2006-04-30 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: Thanks, Joe! I'll check genkernel and get devices set and unset as you recommend. Any idea what device the port 1058 problem is connected with? Thanks! Mark M. Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure about port 1058, but

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