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
> ------------------------

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