Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Booting Gentoo 2006.1 on an iMac
On Sun September 10 2006 11:37, Charles Trois wrote: > I am having trouble while installing 2006.1 on my iMac. I have made > other installations before, but never had this problem. > I am using the Universal ppc disk, and I have followed strictly all the > steps in the 2006.1 handbook. I have not made any modules, everything is > in the kernel. > > What happens is that, on the final reboot, I see 10 or 15 lines of text > (is that the Open Firmware part?) that disappear immediately. Then there > is nothing, and I have to cut the power to go on. The symptoms seem like a problem I had installing Gentoo on an *old* Power Mac (one of those really heavy beige boxes). On boot, the initial penguin and a few lines of text were all I saw, and the box seemed dead. However, it turned out that I hadn't loaded the right video driver in the kernel, and so (at the point in the bootup process where it changes video modes) the screen was freezing, though the machine was actually up and running. Some things to check: Is it actually alive? Do the Caps-/Num-Lock keys cause lights to change on the keyboard? If you type your login and password (even though you can't see anything) and then something like "ls -R /" can you hear hard drive activity? How I dealt with the problem when I had it (working from memory here): 1. Wait for boot activity to cease (no hard drive noise) and log in as root (typing blind). 2. "emerge ssh" and wait for hard drive noise to stop. 3. "/etc/init.d/sshd start" and wait a bit. (First time sshd starts, it generates some keys, which can take a few minutes if your machine is slow like that one was.) 4. Go to another box on the LAN and log in to that one. From there, you should be able to build a new kernel, set up yaboot, etc. I hope this is some help to you. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] What would Jeeves do? [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Sound
On Wed August 10 2005 19:48, Mike S wrote: > ok I have many questions this time. I set this variable before but for > get where it was. There is something that emerge can to to > automatically write over existing configuration files. And when I first > installed gentoo I set it to do that, not knowing how annoying it could > be. Now I hope someone can help me in changing that back, as when I ran You want to read the output of "emerge --help config". Right now. After that, you should probably spend some relaxing time with "man make.conf" and a cup of your favorite non-alcoholic beverage. Regarding sound, I know better than to try to help. :( My sound is touchy at best; just when I seem to have everything working I'll find that xine can't play sound but mplayer can, or they both can but KDE desktop sounds don't work any more while XMMS does. (I've also resolved not to ask for help with this until I migrate from devfs to udev, which failed the first time I tried it.) -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] Measure twice. Cut once. [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] $PATH?
On Wed August 10 2005 05:16, Mike S wrote:
> ok I am stumped as to where the $PATH is set. I know in OSX I just
The path for everyone is set in /etc/profile. Your shell should reference
this when you start a new instance of it (i.e. log in, open a new xterm or
Konsole or whatever). (It's *actually* built from stuff in /etc/env.d so you
shouldn't modify /etc/profile directly...)
> I could make a bunch of symlinks of the java-bin/bin stuff to
> /usr/local/bin I suppose, but that seems like a lot more work than
> necessary. Why that wasn't done in the emerge process I have no idea.
> Checking my PATH it has changed quit a bit as I install new stuff so I
> know some things are changing this.
Try doing "source /etc/profile" in a shell, and that shell should pick up the
new path. Restarting X or rebooting should make the change global.
Most packages I've installed (I won't say "all" because I could be forgetting
something) modify /etc/profile if they need to change the system PATH. If
Limewire did not, you can add to your ~/.bashrc something like:
export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/ibm-jre-bin-1.4.2/bin
That definitely should be picked up every time you start a new terminal,
because it's in your local (user's) environment.
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Missing keyword
On Sat August 6 2005 20:51, Lars Weiler wrote: > > having trouble there. When I emerged gnome 2.10, it looks like I still > > have some parts of 2.8 floating around. (Desktop > SETTINGS > Desktop > > still brings up the old Control Center, and Theme Selector bring one up > > that does nothing) > > I guess, your system isn't updated fully. You can check the versions of all your Gnome stuff at once by running "qpkg -I -v gnome". (In case you're reading this in Arial or something, that's a capital Eye, not a lowercase Ell.) If you don't have qpkg yet, emerge gentoolkit. > That means, nobody of the ppc-crew has ever tested that > ebuild and added a ppc-keyword to it. Currently it's x86. > You can emerge it by adding the following line to your > /etc/portage/package.keywords: > games-emulation/pcsx2 x86 If it actually works (the package looks pretty Intel-specific to me) be sure to post a bug or something letting the dev team know. :) > Also take a look into > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=3&chap=3 Yep, that's a good section to read, especially if you want to do stuff like install little pieces of KDE, or get the latest gnumeric but not break everything else. package.keywords can prevent you from having to customize an ebuild just to try installing something. Good luck, -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] What would Jeeves do? [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo?
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 colors, (usually red) for the text in them, and it > won't play. Has anyone gotten this to work? What color depth are you running X in? I recall having severe problems playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I have no problems. I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and ignore it. (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.) If you run "xine --verbose dvd://" in a command window, do you get any helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits? -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] What would Jeeves do? [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6
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. I'm not an expert here, but could it be the kernel is not using some kind of CPU idling when it's not busy? Maybe the CPU is actually running hotter than it used to. Just an idea, may not be founded in fact. ;) -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] What would Jeeves do? [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Can I force USB drives' device name?
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 hoping for. Thanks! -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] What would Jeeves do? [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-ppc-user] Can I force USB drives' device name?
Hi, list! I've got two USB storage devices here, a Jump Drive and a floppy/superdisk drive. When plugged in by itself, the floppy drive becomes /dev/sda; the Jump Drive becomes /dev/sda1. When they are both plugged in together, whichever one was plugged in first gets /dev/sda(1), and the other becomes /dev/sdb(1). This behavior is expected and understood. What I'd like to know is whether or not it's possible to make the floppy drive, for example, *always* /dev/sdb, even if it's plugged in by itself. This would simplify life by allowing me to have /etc/fstab always know where the floppy drive is, make desktop icons, etc. Does anyone know how to do this? -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] What would Jeeves do? [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] rc-problem
On Thu April 14 2005 17:23, Björn Schöpe wrote: > This problem is posted also here: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2265341-highlight-.html#2265341 > with my configs if you need them. For further details ask me. Thanks for I'm going to reply in the forum instead of here. -- // Carl Hudkins :: Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: PGP 50238D9E // // ==] What would Jeeves do? [== // //(X-Spam-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
