[gentooppc-user] Gentoo-ppc Newbie Questions

[Marcio Luis Teixeira]

Hi there,

I've recently successfully got Gentoo PPC running on my old PowerBook 3400c. 
It compiled for five days straight (whew!) but eventually I had a working 
system. It's looking good so far and seems to work better than other 
precompiled distributions (my system now goes to sleep without crashing, 
woohoo!) Anyhow, I have a couple questions that came up and a few comments 
about the documentation.

I apologize for posting all this to the mailing list. I'm sure there are more 
appropriate places for each of these items, but I don't yet know what they 
are. If anything, I would appreciate it if you could point me in the right 
direction :)

Thanks,

Marcio Luis Teixeira



Documentation Comments:
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1) The docs for the PPC Install say that to enable mouse button emulation you 
must enter into /etc/conf.d/local.start the following lines:

   echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation
   echo "87" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode
   echo "88" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode

That wasn't working for me, so I changed the third line to 
"mouse_button3_keycode". Seems to work now, so I'm thinking that this may be 
a bug in the docs. Is it?

2) In the past, to get PCMCIA to work on my PowerBook, I had to change the 
default settings in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts as such:

   # Settings for the PowerBook:
   include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff
   include memory 0x80000000-0x80ffffff

This is directly from the PCMCIA How-To:

    http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.5

I'm wondering if a) this still applies to Gentoo, and if so b) whether this 
should be part of the installation guide (at least for PowerBook users).

3) I had a hell of a time figuring out how to configure my mouse under 
XFree86. Would it make sense to add a note about this to the PPC install 
instructions? Basically, I had to set the mouse protocol to "PS/2" and the 
device to "/dev/input/mice." This is definitely not what I had expected, as 
in other distros I had used "BusMouse" and "/dev/mouse". Again, I wonder if 
the PPC Install guide should include such info for PowerBook users.

Miscellaneous Glitches I've Yet To Figure Out
---------------------------

4) Once I do "kdm" to start the window manager, I am able to log in correctly. 
But, once I log out, the mouse stops working and freezes. I have to hit 
"Alt-E" to restart the X server before logging in again.

5) My CD-ROM drive does not work. At startup I get:

  hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
  hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
  ATAPI device hdc:
     Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
     Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
     The failed "Start/Stop Unit" packet command was:
     "1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
  cdrom: open failed.

In other distos, I think I had to use SCSI emulation for this drive, so I 
think that may be my problem (still haven't had the time to research how to 
do this under Gentoo).

Grief with Emerge:
--------------------

6) I was able to successfully emerge "alsa-driver" and "alsa-lib", but when I 
try emerging "alsa-utils" (so I can use "amixer" to set the volume, as per 
the desktop configuration guide), I get:

   emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy "alsa-utils" have been masked.

What gives?

7) When I try emerging "sketch", the emerge fails. Here's what I get:

   >>> emerge media-gfx/sketch-0.6.12-r1 to /
   ... blah, blah ...
   >>> md5 ;-) sketch-0.6.12.tar.gz
   >>> Unpacking source...
   >>> Unpacking sketch-0.6.12.tar.gz
   >>> Source unpacked.
   looking for include dir for Imaging.h under /usr/include/python2.2
   Imaging.h not found under /usr/include/python2.2 !

   !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
   !!! Function src_compile, Line 27, Exitcode 1
   !!! setup.py configure failed

I guessed that perhaps "sketch" depended on the python Imaging library, so I 
tried "emerge dev-python/Imaging" and I get the dreaded masked message:

   emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-python/Imaging" have been 
masked.