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Jan 28, 2005, 9:40 AM
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> I couldn't get devfs to work at all. There seems to be a problem with
> it on certain releases. udev works but follow the instructions on the
> udev page. (Mind you I also had problems with shadow and pam-login,
> sigh, and I wasn't the only one.)
That's... uh... strange that you couldn't get devfs to compile...
If you're up for a kernel recompile/extended troubleshooting, have you tried compiling using the proto-2005.0 PPC livecd kernel? Emerge gentoo-dev-sources to get kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 and move the following file to /usr/src/linux/.config before you do make menuconfig... I would try just adding devfs support and seeing if it works.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/2005.config
This will produce a bloated kernel, of course, but could help in determining what's going on...
Just a thought,
chris.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Rod Furey <rod [at] nairobi>
Date: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:33 am
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Install info (was Dual boot partition map examples?)
> This is useful info. I'm trying to get my Gentoo-2004 system into
> some
> sort of working order on the iMac and have been having all sorts
> of
> problems.
>
> > 2) If you choose to enable "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)"
> then
> > make sure you DO NOT ENABLE "Automatically mount at boot"...
> this
> > totally (and magnificently) screws up your boot process when you
> > "emerge udev" (which you should do) later on.
>
> I couldn't get devfs to work at all. There seems to be a problem
> with
> it on certain releases. udev works but follow the instructions on
> the
> udev page. (Mind you I also had problems with shadow and pam-
> login,
> sigh, and I wasn't the only one.)
>
> > 3) Choosing the right compiler options in make.conf really makes
> a
> > difference! I'm attaching my make.conf. Like I commented in
> the
> > code, the CFLAGS came from:
> >
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7012
> >
> > and the USE flags are slightly modified, but originally came from:
> >
> > http://vincent.strubel.free.fr/gentoo-pb/files/make.conf
>
> Also useful to know...
>
> > 4) X takes a long time to compile, and when done, Xconfigure
> didn't
> > work (complained that it couldn't find my mouse or somesuch.
> So,
> > attaching my xorg.conf... you'll have to tweak the
> screen/monitor
> > settings, because you have an ATi card, and we 12-inch people
> have
> > Nvidia.
>
> I'm trying to get X working at the moment. It took 3.5 hours to
> get X
> to compile on the old iMac here, that's without the extras that're
> needed for things like XFCE4.
>
> There's something on a webpage that says that udev uses
> /dev/input/mouse0 (or mice). Comparing this with my old Gentoo-1.4
> installation, the newer xorg stuff hasn't picked up a lot of the
> things
> that X11 did (like this).
>
>
> Many thanks for the info - I know it's in reply to another
> question but
> this is neat! Ta muchly.
>
> Rod
>
>
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