Re: [gentooppc-user] Gentoo-ppc Newbie Questions

[Todd Heim]

[posted to the ml now, since I didnt 'reply to all' the first time]

On Sunday 06 October 2002 06:16 pm, Marcio Luis Teixeira wrote:
...
>    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?

Your right, the docs are incorrect

> 2) In the past, to get PCMCIA to work on my PowerBook, I had to change the

...

> 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).

I dont use pcmcia, so I dont really know...

> 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.

I've seen this problem mentioned in the forums before too- maybe a note in
 the docs is needed

> 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).

Im not sure if it's really necessary, but the steps would be:
To enable scsi-ide emulation:
enable:
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ->
	IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ->
		SCSI emulation support"
recompile, and boot with the kernel option "hdc=scsi"  (provided the cdrom is
hdc)

> 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:

alsa-utils is apparently not keyworded "PPC"
you could:
`emerge /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-utils/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc3.ebuild`
then, if it works, submit a not back to this list so it can get keyworded.

>    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.

Looks like someone leftout a dependency. if "Imaging.h" is provided, you
 could emerge /usr/portage/dev-python/Imaging/Imaging-1.1.2-r2.ebuild then
 emerge sketch.
If it works, submit a bug report to bugs.gentoo.org about the missing
dependency. And, as with alsa-utils, write back to this list so
dev-python/Imaging can get keyworded.

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t.heim