<sigh>... it looks like z50 users will have to stick with greg h's kernel 
in the interim...

NetBSD is *so* close to being perfect on the z50!

anyway, i'm still happy...

billy ball

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> 
> OK...  So here's my quick and dirty review of the differences, on my IBM
> z50, between NetBSD 1.5 and this latest snapshot (from yesterday) at:
> 
> http://kame.naobsd.org/snapshots
> 
> Basically, it seems to have improved apm support.  Well, sort of, anyway.
> When booting up, it tells you how much battery life you have left.
> However, there still seems to be no apm binary on the sytem, so you can't
> find out how much life is left in a battery unless you reboot :-)  Since
> APM is APM is APM, could this be ported from x86?  You can put the system
> to sleep by hitting the sleep button, but the LCD still remains on.  The
> hpcmips FAQ lists the possibility of setting LCD to suspend by setting
> ite8181_lcd_control_disable to 0 using gdb, but I have no clue how to do
> that :-)  Anyone want to give me any hints before I go messing with a
> running kernel? :-)
> 
> It detects an audio device when booting:
> 
> audio0 at vraiu0: half duplex
> 
> And it sort-of works :-)  esd doesn't like it, at least not completely.  I
> get just weird static.  I can use sox to play a .au file.  I bet I can get
> it to play wav files, too.  I'm still working on mp3 :-)
> 
> The mouse still does not work on the Z50.  Last time I tried to build from
> CVS, and use Greg Hughe's patches for the mouse, I failed miserably.
> 
> Can someone with access to the official NetBSD source *please* fix this?
> There's no reason why the mouse on the z50 should continue to go
> unsupported.
> 
> And, interesting enough, typing reboot doesn't actually reboot the entire
> machine, just NetBSD :-)  It shuts down, and reloads the kernel, without
> the side trip through Windows CE land.  Obviously you can still shutdown
> and reboot into Windows CE if you want to.
> 
> Those my first observations.
> 
> And please, if you do get the mouse working, let me know how!!! :-)
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, billy ball wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jun Ebihara wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > that audio driver code had commited into NetBSD-current.
> > 
> > has anyone verified that the driver works on the z50? 
> > 
> > bball
> > 
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