Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5
The video should not be a big problem. If you are going to use xorg-7.1, make sure to apply the patch to the ati driver. I could not get xorg.conf set up correctly, until Xorgautoconfig gave me a starting point. I haven't used ppc64, but many of the developers are doing so. In fact, I've had to add ppc to ebuilds that had ppc64 in the KEYWORDS, but not ppc. I don't know about mixing ppc32 and ppc64 apps, but perhaps a chroot environment such as that used in amd64 might be possible. On Tuesday 03 October 2006 16:26, darren kirby wrote: Hello all, Hardware: PowerPC G5, dual 2GHz CPUs, 1.5GB RAM I am no stranger to installing Gentoo, but I have questions that don't appear to be answered in the PPC64 handbook. I am waiting for a new SATA drive here, and when it arrives I intend to install Gentoo on it. A few Qs: 1. OS X is on the first sata drive, Gentoo will be on the second. Is it still necessary to create the 'apple_bootstrap' partition if Gentoo will be on its own complete disk? 2. If I follow the PPC64 guide does this give me the 64bit userland? If so, is there enough (hard) unmasked software to use this as a general desktop machine? Is all software in the package database marked stable under PPC64 64bit userland software? Can I mix and match PPC32 and PPC64 software? Any and all information on this issue would be most helpful, as I don't think I completely understand it (I don't have an x86-64 machine so I am mostly ignorant of 64bit issues). 3. I have the 23 inch Cinema display and a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro vidcard. Are there drivers that can make this setup work? I ask because I booted the machine with a Kubuntu PPC livecd to play around and while the cli worked, when it came time for X to start the screen went black and I was forced to do a hard reset. I am not sure if this was just a problem with Kubuntu, or some other reason. I am not too concerned with hardware acceleration or anything, at most I just want to be able to watch DVDs. Apropos, if any one has the same, or a similar setup I would love if you could send me your xorg.conf. Again, I am very familiar with Gentoo, but have little knowledge of PPC hardware and 64 bit issues...pointers to docs that explain differences and ramification on this topic would be great. Thanks for consideration. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* KMail on Gentoo/PPC -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerging kdebase-kioslaves
You are trying to emerge one of the packages in the modular build of KDE. You would first need to uninstall the monolithic buiild as it has the same packages but builds them at the same time. The monolithic build may be more stable once done, that is unclear, but the modular is easier to update. To install the modular kde use the kde-meta packages. You may want to wait on that until 3.5.x goes to stable, as it takes a long time. On Friday 05 May 2006 6:35 am, Mark Hart wrote: I am trying to emerge kdebase-kioslaves as per the instructions in HOWTO D-BUS, HAL, KDE media:/ When I try to emerge -pvt kdebase-kioslaves, I get the following: mac2 / # emerge -pvt kdebase-kioslaves These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdialog-3.4.1) [ebuild N] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.4.3 +arts -debug +hal -kdeenablefinal +ldap -openexr -samba -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kdialog-3.4.1 +arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdexdeltas -xinerama 21,907 kB Total size of downloads: 21,907 kB Being new to this, I don't know what to do next. Thanks! Mark M. Hart -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?
I believe that either you are missing a driver in your kernel, or haven't loaded it if set as a module. On Thursday 04 May 2006 9:41 am, Mark M. Hart wrote: I just did an emerge on Xorgautoconfig and ran the command, but the xorg.conf file it makes doesn't work - it tells me that ATI(0) Adapter has not been initialized, and Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. It sets Mode 1024x768 at several depths, which I can live with, and default mode of 16, which I can also live with. Now if I could just get it to work ... Thanks! Mark M. Hart -Original Message- From: David Gurvich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration? There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good results. On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote: I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor is attached to). When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati choice will not work on testing. This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which works well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong. When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it. I’ve tried merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not getting anywhere. Thanks in advance for your help! Mark M. Hart -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie question
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 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 card. all standard equipment. Do I need to wipe the Mac Hard clean first? or can Gentoo install do that? Looking for some doc's on the 1,2,3 steps.. to do a install on Mac G4 ppc 32bit Thanks ++ Richard -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error
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 Drivers -- Machintosh device drivers. Now I'm tryng to install X and KDE. David, how did you installed KDE or Gnome in your machine, I'm with some problems in configs for video. Can you send me you xorg.conf? Best regards. On 3/28/06, David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 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 problem appeared with hwclock, when I execute the hwclock an error appear. The error is something like: select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out and the date in Linux stay 1970, the bios time is correctly because when I boot the Gento CD the hwclock work perfectly. I already recompiled the kernel with many options but nothing solve the problem. I believe that the problem is with some kernel option that I forgot or some patch, because in the Gentoo CD the hwclock works perfectly. What kernel option or patch can be solve the problem? Hints? Best regards. Fernando Simon Brazil -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC # This file was generated by Xorgautoconfig v0.2. Section ServerLayout Identifier X.Org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath /usr/lib/X11/rgb # ModulePath can be used to set a search path for the X server modules. # The default path is shown here. ModulePath /usr/lib/modules # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # For X Font Server support, uncomment this and comment the other FontPaths # Note that this is not required for most configurations # FontPathunix/:-1 FontPath/usr/share/fonts/local/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/encodings/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/util/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/TTF/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/ukr/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/default/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/CID/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk-fonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/kochi-substitute/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/afms/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/terminus/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/intlfonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/freefont/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/ EndSection Section Module Loadextmod Loaddri Loaddbe Loadrecord Loadglx Loadtype1 Loadfreetype Loadfbdevhw EndSection Section Extensions # Option Composite Disable # Experimental EndSection Section ServerFlags Option blank time10# 10 minutes Option standby time 20 Option suspend time 30 Option off time 60 ### Uncomment this Server flag if X should not change resolutions. ### This is useful if mode changing crashes / corrupts the X server # Option DisableVidModeExtensions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd # Change XkbModel to macintosh_old if you are using # the deprecated adb keycodes. Option
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error
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 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 problem appeared with hwclock, when I execute the hwclock an error appear. The error is something like: select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out and the date in Linux stay 1970, the bios time is correctly because when I boot the Gento CD the hwclock work perfectly. I already recompiled the kernel with many options but nothing solve the problem. I believe that the problem is with some kernel option that I forgot or some patch, because in the Gentoo CD the hwclock works perfectly. What kernel option or patch can be solve the problem? Hints? Best regards. Fernando Simon Brazil -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC config.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
