> > * Desperately no mouse/trackpad. I tried to revert to 8.2 > > devfsd/hotplug/initscripts/gpm but no chance, and nothing appears in the > > logs. > > gpm starts without troubles, but does not log anything. > > Kdm or X don't log anything unusual about the mouse. > > What is 'funny' is that booting with devfsd=nomount enable the mouse > > *but* only with gpm - not with X...so it really seems to be related to > > /dev entries. > > About the mouse, again, current cooker initscript fails while loading > > usb-ohci, but it is OK, since usb-pohci is in the kernel. > > > > Ok, then I bet the updated devfsd broke things, as I patched the 8.2 > version specically for PPC. The normal mouse setup is: > > /dev/mouse -> /dev/usbmouse -> /dev/input/mice > > I'm not at my machine to give you the fixed /etc/devfsd.conf? lines. Guess what ? You're right ! I found that in fact /dev/usbmouse was linked to /dev/input/mouse0, I changed that to try every other /dev/input entries, and it worked when linking to /dev/input/mice.
> > > * No sound - but I'm used to, same trouble with 8.2 - my computer seems > > rather too new. > > > > possibly - don't know offhand on that one dmasound_pmac as included in 8.2 kernel does not work at all. dmasound from benh's kernel (at least rc2, don't know for the latest) works fine - I bet he has an updated version. > > * Apache/mod_perl complains about missing libperl.so. Once fixed in > > /etc/ld.so.conf, it complains about the lack of the following symbol > > perl_init_i18nl10n (is it related to the locale trouble ?) > > > > Not sure about that one either, but it doesn't sound necessarily PPC > specific (at least the ld.so.conf part). You might drop a line to the > maintainer of that package. I think it was related to the locale problem, because when I've updated my locales, the problem disappeared. Anyway, many thanks for your help ! Take care, Brice
