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Naturetech 888P (mostly) working



Morning,

I just threw 5.0 at a Naturetech 888P last night, and can report that it
successfully boots multi-user.

There's a few things that aren't quite all there yet, though. While a
GENERIC kernel works fairly well, one with cbb enabled doesn't. Also,
the onboard keyboard is rather unresponsive under wscons; it drops ~20%
of events. I've been mostly using an external keyboard instead.

Xorg on this box is just plain weird. The 888P has a 1400x1050 LCD
display, but Xorg will only drive it at 1024x768. And Xorg.0.log shows
that Xorg claims the builtin display is a CRT on the (external) VGA
connector.

As an aside, even the OpenPROM settings for the display are strange;
'screen' comes up as 1024x768 while the boot font is too large to fit
80 columns in such. OpenPROM has 1280x1024 predefined, but no 1400x1050.
I hope to get around to adding r1400x1050x60, but I'm currently ignorant
of how to work out sync pulse width and porch width.
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T. M. Pederson <tmp+nbpsu%disfinite.org@localhost>
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