Re: Hwclock error

David Gurvich <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:51:57 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
I used Xorgautoconfig to generate a working xorg.conf and modified for my 
specific system.

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 12:23 pm, Flisk . wrote:
> Hi David,
>     Thanks for your reply. But last nught I found the problem, was a kernel
> parameter.
>     I defined the CUDA instead of PMU in "Device Drivers --> Machintosh
> device drivers".
>     Now I'm tryng to install X and KDE. David, how did you installed KDE or
> Gnome in your machine, I'm with some problems in configs for video. Can you
> send me you xorg.conf?
>     Best regards.
>
> On 3/28/06, David Gurvich <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would suggest seeing what modules are loaded by the CD.  As it happens,
> > my
> > current computer is a dual-G4 almost identical to the one described. 
> > I'll attach my .config to this message.
> >
> > On Sunday 26 March 2006 3:11 pm, Flisk . wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >     Here where I work we received a G4 computer and I started to
> > > install
> >
> > a
> >
> > > Gentoo 2006.0. The computer is a G4 2 CPU's 512MB of memory 2 HD, I
> >
> > started
> >
> > > to install Gentoo 2006.0 from stage 1 and everything gone well. I
> >
> > installed
> >
> > > with cpu flag as G4 and O2.
> > >     But when the computer restarted a problem appeared with hwclock,
> >
> > when I
> >
> > > execute the hwclock an error appear. The error is something like:
> >
> > "select()
> >
> > > to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out" and the date in Linux
> > > stay 1970, the bios time is correctly because when I boot the Gento CD
> > > the hwclock work perfectly. I already recompiled the kernel with many
> >
> > options
> >
> > > but nothing solve the problem.
> > >     I believe that the problem is with some kernel option that I forgot
> >
> > or
> >
> > > some patch, because in the Gentoo CD the hwclock works perfectly. What
> > > kernel option or patch can be solve the problem? Hints?
> > >     Best regards.
> > >
> > > ------------------------
> > > Fernando Simon
> > > Brazil
> > > ------------------------
> >
> > --
> > Kmail on Gentoo/PPC

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Kmail on Gentoo/PPC
xorg.conf (text/plain, 4.5 KB) 
# This file was generated by Xorgautoconfig v0.2.
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"X.Org Configured"
	Screen		0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice	"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice	"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

       RgbPath 	"/usr/lib/X11/rgb"

# ModulePath can be used to set a search path for the X server modules.
# The default path is shown here.

    	ModulePath 	"/usr/lib/modules"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)

# For X Font Server support, uncomment this and comment the other FontPaths
# Note that this is not required for most configurations
#       FontPath	"unix/:-1"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/local/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/encodings/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/util/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/ukr/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/default/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk-fonts/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/kochi-substitute/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/afms/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/terminus/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/intlfonts/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/freefont/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"dbe"
	Load	"record"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"fbdevhw"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
# 	Option "Composite"	"Disable"	# Experimental
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
 	Option 	"blank time"	"10"	# 10 minutes
 	Option 	"standby time"	"20"
 	Option 	"suspend time"	"30"
 	Option 	"off time"	"60"
### Uncomment this Server flag if X should not change resolutions.
### This is useful if mode changing crashes / corrupts the X server
#	Option  "DisableVidModeExtensions"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Keyboard0"
	Driver		"kbd"
# Change "XkbModel" to "macintosh_old" if you are using
# the deprecated adb keycodes.
	Option		"XkbModel"	"macintosh"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
 	Option 		"XkbOptions" 	"compose:rwin"
### Uncomment this if your layout uses nodeadkeys
	#Option		"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Mouse0"
	Driver   	"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Buttons"	"7"
	Option		"Name"		"Logitech USB Trackball"
	Option   	"Protocol" 	 "auto"
	Option		"Device"	 "/dev/input/mice"
	Option   	"YAxisMapping" "6 7"
	Option		"EmulateWheel"	"True"
	Option		"EmulateWheelButton" "4"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Monitor0"
	UseModes	"Modes0"
	ModelName	"Monitor Model"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	30-130
	VertRefresh	50-60
EndSection

Section "Modes"
	Identifier	"Modes0"

	# Generated
	# D: 108.003 MHz, H: 63.983 kHz, V: 60.021 Hz
	Modeline "1280x1024" 108.003 1280 1408 1520 1688  1024 1028 1031 1066  -HSync -VSync
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Card0"
	### Available Driver options:
	Option "ColorTiling" "false"  # True has trouble with latest xorg
	Option "BackingStore" "true"  # Increases performance
	Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" # Increases performance
	#Option "SWcursor"	"false" # Use Software Cursor
	#Option "NoAccel"	"false" # Disable Hardware Acceleration
	#Option "AGPMode"	"1"	# Set AGP data transfer rate, DRI only
	#Option "AGPFastWrite" "false" # Use AGP Fast Write, DRI only
	#Option "RenderAccel" "true"  # Hardware acceleration
	#Option "DCCMode"	"false" # Use querried modes from monitor
	#Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS" # Enable this for Apple DVI LCDs
	### See "man radeon" for additional options
	Option	"UseFBDev"	"False"
	Driver	"radeon"
	BusID	"PCI:0:16:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Screen0"
	Device		"Card0"
	Monitor		"Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes 		"1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes 		"1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes 		"1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group 0
	Mode 0666
EndSection