Thanks for the replies, overkll & audiodef.

tom, have you tried overkill's suggestion?
I completely wipe out /tmp at each reboot and this does not seem to help. I also created a new test user with an empty home dir. Login in the first time worked ok; the desktop icons are there, after a couple of ...

Here is my emerge --info. Thanks!


Portage 2.1.6_rc3 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r4-mbp-tom i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r4-mbp-tom-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2 ...

I'm using the driver x11-drivers/synaptics version 0.14.6. Just thinking, have you defined the proper input devices in make.conf, especially evdev? Mine looks like this:


USE="X a52 aac acpi aim alsa apm avahi audiofile bash-completion beagle bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia c
dr ...

You're welcome. I realized my xorg.conf was not complete, so here it is again:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Thu Jun 5 00:10:21 PDT 2008


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 ...

Regarding usbmouse; it seems it is quite an outdated module and usbhid/evdev should now be used.

My .config file (I'm using gentoo sources 2.6.27-r4):

#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27-gentoo-r4
# Sat Nov 29 17:38:27 2008
#
# CONFIG_64BIT is not ...

Same here; no desktop icons at first login.

Under "News", I would also add a category "Flash"; just to put some quick and general site info such as "The GMN of October is skipped.", "The wiki site is unavailable", "The package page is not currently not being updated due to technical reasons"; no need of details or explanations. Just to let ...

tom_bxl wrote: Make sure you use the module bcm5974

Forgot to mention, also blacklist the usbmouse module. Let me know if you want my kernel config and xorg.conf.

Tom

i installed gentoo on my macbook pro, nvidia working fine. but still touchpad not working ok, just cursor move. nothing else, even not taking first click. can you please help me what you did ?

Make sure you use the module bcm5974. It is included in the kernel since 2.6.27. If you are using an ...

I'm using a Macbook Pro Penryn (early 2008). The touch pad works perfectly including two/three finger touch and scrolling. I have however not tried other special gestures such as zooming. For the rest, everything works great with the latest kernels, power management, accelerometer, keyboard light ...

Have you given a try to the Broadcom driver instead of ndiswrapper? It works pretty well on my Macbook pro with the BCM4328 ( http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php ). Faster connection and handles power management better. I just followed the instruction of the README file on the link ...

I got the same problems and there were caused by the ehci module (not only the camera but most of my usb devices). It used to work with kernel 2.6.15. When removing the ehci module , everything was working fine, without usb 2. I have recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.20 and everything started working ...

I got everything working perfectly since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.20.

I don't think the functionality exists because of the fact that mode bits can be changed on a per-file basis unlike msdos filesystems, which doesn't have the capability...

Makes sense :oops:


What specifically are you trying to do? Is this a hotplug disk?

Are you trying to use this as a ...

I have been using several laptop under Linux and eventually always got everything to work, sometimes with quite some pain I must admit :) , but this used to be 5 years ago. I have tested so far Dell, HP, Sony, Acer. I think that nowadays there is not preferred laptop brand for Linux. All seem to ...

Btw, if my first post was not clear. I'm using the option grpid to force any file/directory created to inherit the group from its parent directory (which works fine), but I now would like to manage the default permissions (currently similar to using a umask 022) to umask 002.

Tom

Thanks for the try :D ; but it does not seem to work. I have tried to change the permissions to 770 on the mount point before mounting it, but after I mounted the file system on it, the permissions were changed to 755.

In a shameless attempt, I also tried to set the default permissions to 770 ...

Hi,

I would like to set a default umask to something like 220 on ext2 and ext3 file systems. Looking at the man page for mount, I could only find these options for several file system types but not on ext2/3. Is this possible and how?

Thanks,

Tom

For information, I get the same symptoms when connecting the scanner to my laptop. The controller in this case is an Intel.

onesandzeros,

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I start a new thread following this thread and a post in this one .

I have USB 1 (UHCI) and USB 2 (EHCI) controller so I compiled the modules uchi_hcd and ehci_hcd (gentoo-sources 2.6.18-r4)


zorglub ~ # lspci | grep USB
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 ...

I have a VIA controller. I don't consider this as a solution, but I 'm trying to find out what could be the cause. The strande thing is that I only get this with the ehci module loaded with programs using libusb. When accessing the devices without libusb, everything runs smoothly. Libusb returns I/O ...

In order to make those tools function, you need the freq. scaling support in the first place. Therefore, that's not a solution.


Well, if one sees the /sys/device/.../cpufreq/scaling_governor files, in order to be able to "echo something > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor ...

Do you have by any chance the ehci_hcd module loaded? I'm getting similar problems that get "solved" when I remove ehci_hcd, using my USB 2 port at full speed

Cotcot,

does removing ehci_hcd also fixes the problem in your case? When googling on this topic, I came across a couple of similar issues with VIA USB 2 cards?