iMac installation, report, solutions and a PDA question

[Michel Klijmij]

Hi,

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu on my bondi blue iMac. Having looked here I
was prepared. Some issues I had and saw here and some solutions I had:

- Networking wasn't detected.
  Solution: during install, go to terminal and modprobe bmac
  (I knew which module I had to use from the previous installation)

- Sound. A recurring problem with Gnome (I also had this on 2.2) is that
  sound ends up in the internal speakers, not the nice ones that are
  connected through the line out. If it isn't autodetected, you need to 
  modprobe dmasound_pmac
  (my speakers were off so I don't know whether it worked out of the 
  box)

- X was configured for 1024x768x24bpp while my poor old mac can't 
  handle that. I had to manually edit XF86Config-4 to set it to 16bpp.
  Oddly, only 640x480 worked.

- Gnome didn't really upgrade nicely from the 2.2 files that were still 
  there to 2.8. I had to remove the .gnome* and .gconf* directories to 
  get the applications menu etc.

And now for the major problem: I can't sync my Palm m130, with the
default udev.rules. Gnome-pilot just sits and waits, my palm times out
after a while. Any idea what I'm missing?

>From /var/log/messages :
Sep 20 17:29:26 imac hal.hotplug[18375]: waiting for usb-serial info
at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/ttyUSB1
Sep 20 17:29:26 imac hal.hotplug[18375]: Dont know how to wait for usb-
serial at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/ttyUSB1;
sleeping 1000 ms
Sep 20 17:29:26 imac hal.hotplug[18381]: waiting for tty info
at /class/tty/ttyUSB1
Sep 20 17:29:26 imac hal.hotplug[18381]: Dont know how to wait for tty
at /class/tty/ttyUSB1; sleeping 1000 ms
Sep 20 17:29:27 imac hal.hotplug[18391]: waiting for usb info
at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1
Sep 20 17:29:27 imac hal.hotplug[18391]: got info
for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1 (waited 0 ms)
Sep 20 17:29:31 imac hal.hotplug[18399]: waiting for usb info
at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0
Sep 20 17:29:31 imac hal.hotplug
[18399]: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 is an USB
interface
Sep 20 17:29:31 imac hal.hotplug[18399]: got info
for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (waited 0 ms)
Sep 20 17:29:34 imac kernel: visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS
converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
Sep 20 17:29:34 imac kernel: visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS
converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
Sep 20 17:30:38 imac kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 18
Sep 20 17:30:38 imac kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: device disconnected