[gentoo-ppc-user] new powerbook woes

[Jacob Smullyan]

I have a new powerbook G4 (12", 867 Mhz) and have been running into a
number of nasty problems getting it to work.

I found that with the benh kernel, I ran into the hda/hdc confusion
that has been talked about a lot in the forums.  There seemed to be
two approaches to resolving it -- activating a kernel option that put
the ATA 100 first, or setting /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf to look
in hdc.  Neither approach worked for me; either way, I either got a
kernel panic if if continued to look in /dev/hda, or the boot simply
died after openpic, usually causing a poweroff and reboot.

So I went to ppc-sources, and got a working kernel.  However, it has
two problems.  1. no /proc/cpufreq, so I'm left with a processor
running at 61% of capacity, and it is already pretty slow (coming from
x86, I was actually pretty shocked at how slow compiles were, although
I suppose gcc is responsible for a lot of that).  2. It mounts my root
partition, which should be ext3, as ext2, with this warning:

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,11): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3
filesystem as ext2

Not having ext3 is a pain, because (especially since standby isn't
working either) it means that I've had to fsck several times already,
once manually.  There is not apm emulation, so I can't monitor
my battery (or at least, I don't know how to yet).

Some good news, though -- no problems with the nvidia graphics card!

Any pointers, anyone?  If anyone has a .config that works for benh on
this model I'd be thrilled.

Jacob Smullyan