usb infos, gtkam & kinfocenter

[Derick Centeno]

> 
> From: Krischan Keitsch <keitsch at cs.tu-berlin.de>
> Date: 2005/02/24 Thu PM 05:28:49 EST
> To: yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: usb infos, gtkam & kinfocenter
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm running ydl 4 on an iBook G3 800MHz and yumed it to the latest updates 
> avaible for non-ydl-enhanced-net-users. Works okay for me ? except that I 
> noticed that something is wrong with the usb support. 
> 
> An attached usb keyboard and mouse work great. So does a usb drive. But the 
> kinfocenter does not show any informations anymore. Also gtkam does not 
> interact with my digital camera via the usb cable any more.  
> 
> It would be easy to blame TSS (hey ? I came crawling back on my knees to ydl 
4 
> after playing with other ppc distros ;-) but I also have to admit that I like 
> to ?optimize? my box up to an extend that leads nowhere. To say it in one 
> word: it is likely to be my fault. However I don't know where to search! 
> Proc, sysfs are mountet. 
> 
> So, in case you have a hint for me ? let me know! Thanks!
> 
> Krischan

Hi Krischan:
As you may be aware the difficulties and challenges of all Linux distros are 
that a dependency or the latest download may mismatch with a particular kernel 
or the kernel may have been compiled one kind or other modules present have not 
been invoked at compile time, and so on.  It can reach the point where one has 
to be a Master Software Engineer oneself to correct, adapt and otherwise manage 
all the varieties of possibilities, and as time goes on I keep observing that 
this is what consistently appears to be true amongst all the distros.  

This is the nature of what Linux is, and may be this way for quite sometime.  
If ANYONE found a "perfect" and balanced distro I'm sure everyone would be 
THERE.  That you came "back" here, says an awful lot AND demonstrates my prior 
argument with others regarding other distros.  However, it is hardly a winning 
point that YDL is less likely to have things wrong with it as it is closely 
tied to Red Hat.  Again the problem is the way Linux itself has been designed, 
and like a treadmill that never stops, slows down and needs itself 
repairs...one may marvel at the system, but one begins to wonder if there isn't 
a saner way of working or doing whatever what one does.

The link below may be useful to your query before you proceed towards a 
solution or resolution.

http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Updating+YDL/Doing+things+as+root/A+referra
l+regarding+using+Modprobe%2C+Kerneld%2C+and+Insmod

The above link points to a particular page of the YDL FAQ website.  While you 
are there you may find how yum.conf differs from what you may have or if it 
does.  

Best wishes...