Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-10-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
Okay, so we fixed the first thing. That's good. :) Can you attach your whole kernel config? I'm wondering if maybe udev isn't running properly due to a misconfiguration. -Joe Attached unless GMail does something to it. Thanks, Mark Another busy week, but I think we might have your

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-10-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 10/07/10 14:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: Okay, so we fixed the first thing. That's good. :) Can you attach your whole kernel config? I'm wondering if maybe udev isn't running properly due to a misconfiguration. -Joe

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-10-01 Thread Joseph Jezak
Sorry, I've had a busy week and didn't have time to respond! OK - to me this doesn't look good: # mount -t procfs none /proc mount:none has wrong device number or fs type procfs not supported Sorry, that was my mistake, I was running from memory. :) You have the right invocation below.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-23 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 09/22/10 23:33, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: On 09/22/10 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, I'm dead tired. I admit it - yaboot has kicked my butt this time around. Can anyone help? I did post this problem here 2-3 weeks ago

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-23 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 09/23/10 12:17, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: SNIP mtab is generated on boot as you mount devices. It's not the problem here. Can you try adding this line to your yaboot config? It will make the system boot directly into a shell

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-22 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 09/22/10 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, I'm dead tired. I admit it - yaboot has kicked my butt this time around. Can anyone help? I did post this problem here 2-3 weeks ago but still haven't been able to solve the problem so I'm back to the well for another drink. The machine is

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-20 Thread Joseph Jezak
SubSection Display Depth8 Virtual640 400 Modes640x400 720x400 640x480 640x480 EndSubSection These modes are picked by xac (and probably the X server as well) because if you look at the EDID reported by your monitor, these are the modes it

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-16 Thread Joseph Jezak
David Friedlander wrote: Hello, all! I'm having the damnedest time getting X to run on my Mac Mini 1.25Ghz (Radeon 9200 processor). I've wasted a lot of time following various web instructions, but to no avail. One issue, of course, is the right xorg.conf file. Another one may be (in some

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-16 Thread Joseph Jezak
Joseph Jezak wrote: David Friedlander wrote: Hello, all! I'm having the damnedest time getting X to run on my Mac Mini 1.25Ghz (Radeon 9200 processor). I've wasted a lot of time following various web instructions, but to no avail. One issue, of course, is the right xorg.conf file

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] what happened to mkfs.hfsplus

2009-07-05 Thread Joseph Jezak
mattmat...@mac.com wrote: i have hfsplusutils and hfsutils installed and can not find any util to make an hfs+ filesystem. i recall formatting several times before in the past. could anyone tell me how to format hfs+ or where mkfs.hfsplus went? matt It's part of diskdev_cmds, Apple's

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yabootconfig: /dev/ROOT: No such file or directory why?

2009-06-30 Thread Joseph Jezak
mv.1001 wrote: Hi, I have a problem here. I follow everything step by step from handbook. but it always stopped here. I tried many time and searched it in google. but Can't find answers. the problem is: After I install yaboot in chroot environment. then I exit it, and try yabootconfig

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken

2007-08-29 Thread Joseph Jezak
darren kirby wrote: Hello all, I am having troubles with all KDE apps since a recent upgrade to 3.5.7 from 3.5.5. At first I thought it was related to all the upgrade troubles with expat (which was upgraded to version 2 at the same time) however I am not so sure anymore. 'emerge -puD'

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg not working.

2006-10-06 Thread Joseph Jezak
darren kirby wrote: Yeah well, me again. Seems I'm the only one having trouble with PPC these days. I got Xorg 7.1, fluxbox, and KDE installed. After creating an xorg.conf with Xorgautoconfig I quickly realized I indeed had the problem hinted at re: VGA BIOS. So I ~ppc64 keyworded

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg not working.

2006-10-06 Thread Joseph Jezak
Try Xorgconfig auto will not work for my mac I have Dual 1.8 17 Studio also check the video ram amount That has helped to get X running fine every time Well, as the author of Xorgautoconfig, what was the problem? :) Can you post the config generated from each so I can fix it? -Joe --

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] New install fails to boot.

2006-10-04 Thread Joseph Jezak
Again I rebooted, and all seems fine. It boots from a CD, it boots OS X just fine, but the one constant throughout all my attempts is that when trying to boot Linux, it prints this cryptic message and hangs: found display :/[EMAIL PROTECTED],f000/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATX, [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5

2006-10-03 Thread Joseph Jezak
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

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-08 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, fine, in the kernel. I did a genconfig --menuconfig and couldn't find these options in the menus. So, do I need to specify them on the genconfig command line? And if so, what is the proper way? I did a genconfig --help but got little

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre8 [May 6 2006 11:12] Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh Starting MOL session 0 The kernel module '/usr/lib/mol/0.9.71/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/sheep.o' appears to be missing. Running in PowerPC 750

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: Here's after re-emerging with USE=sheep I actually got a window for a split-second with the mac-on-linux penguin symbol. Please let me know how to re-emerge with the network masquerading enabled; do I do a USE=nat or USE=tun

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-06 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: I enabled fbcon use flag and re-emerged mol. I ran molvconfig and set up a ton of video modes. When I try to do startmol (from within X/Kde and without) I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-06 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: I'm trying to run OS 9. Thanks! Mark M. Hart If the OS9 install is on the same partition as OSX, that won't work. Barring that, you've probably neglected to configure something in /etc/mol. What do the debugging messages

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-06 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: I'm using 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. I am sure that something is printing out before the screen goes blank, but the only key combo I can use to get out of the blank screen is ctrl-alt-del, which switches me to runlevel 6 and reboots

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?

2006-05-04 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: I'm new at this, and I don't know about ebuild yet. Can you give me a hint about what I should do to get the Xorgautoconfig built? Thanks! Mark M. Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should probably take a look at the PPC

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?

2006-05-04 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: I got the fbdev version of the config file working by setting the default depth to 16 instead of 24. This is an old 233 mhz box, and slow video isn't going to make that much difference, I think. I would like to know at some

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 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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