On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 05:57, Menaka Lashitha Bandara wrote: > > I pulled linuxppc-2.5-benh from bitkeeper (ppc), and compiled it. So, > just reporting back progress on my ibook. I get an error when trying to > hdparm's. I send a message about this a while ago to this list, and Ben > gave me a patch. The patch worked fine, and i've read pmac.c code, and > the patch is active in there. I'd like to attach a dmesg, but for some > reason the kernel doesn't write to /var/log/dmesg or > /var/log/kernel.log. > > Secondly, X loaded fine, but gdm failed to load completely (I have no > idea why this is). I also couldn't switch to a virtual console using the > normal combination alt-ctrl-fn-F1.
Is VTAllocation enabled in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf? FWIW, I'm using the (more or less) current linuxppc-2.5 rsync tree and don't have any of these problems. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
