On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Oddie  Jonathan wrote:
> > 
> > I would really like to get some UN*X system running on a PowerBook 150,
> > but it says in the list of NetBSD supported machines that the PB150 will
> > boot NetBSD, but can only be accessed from an external terminal :-(
> > 
> > My question is, what exactly is the problem? I thought it said it was with
> > the video, but I also saw somewhere else that it was with ADB. Would it be
> > a hard problem to fix? Because maybe I could have a go at it.
> 
> I believe that ADB _should_ be working for this machine (if it's not right
> now, it will most likely be by the 1.3 release).  However, internal video
> mapping is still going to be broken in all likelihood.  Because of this, I
> doubt the PB 1x0-series machines will boot off of their own consoles
> (actually, I doubt any of the PowerBooks will boot off of their own
> consoles on a -current kernel, if anyone has info to the contrary, please
> let me know asap!).

I know they (powerbook 145's, anyway) did on April's -current... as for
now, I'm not sure.  I'll bring home a kernel this weekend and give it a
shot....


David

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