I have a NetBSD 1.6 (or newer I don't remember now). with LCD suspend 
and track point enabled. I only play with my z50 once awhile. I was 
trying to use it with Abiword but it turns out to be quite slow. Well, 
the compilation took a long time because it was done on NFS with a LPE+ 
NIC and I used my 1 GB microdrive to put the packages. Tell you a 
disgusting story: I only use my z50 to play solitaire when I sit inside 
my toilet. I feel the NetBSD developers are doing a good job here. I 
just don't have better use of it. It maybe OK if I use it with something 
like latex or troff for writing papers. For work, I have to use cluster 
of faster machines for computation. If the modem and sound work, I could 
show off when I go to a conference with me colleagues and use it for 
entertainment. But, the best would be having the kernel burnt into the 
ROM so I don't have to see WinCE ever again. If you want the kernel, I 
can email you or upload to your ftp server. Perhaps, someone can point 
what version it is by the following:

%strings public_html/netbsd | grep '1\.6'
$Id: hpcfb.c,v 1.6.4.2 2000/08/06 04:18:21 takemura Exp $
$Id: bivideo.c,v 1.6.4.2 2000/08/06 04:10:03 takemura Exp $
$NetBSD: __setjmp14.S,v 1.6 2000/03/05 05:41:53 shin Exp $
$NetBSD: pipe.S,v 1.6.10.1 2000/09/29 09:05:35 kleink Exp $
$NetBSD: fork.S,v 1.6.10.1 2000/08/22 07:12:42 kleink Exp $
Version 1.66 (5/18/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
$NetBSD: chflags.c,v 1.6 1998/10/10 07:38:23 mrg Exp $
$NetBSD: misc.c,v 1.6 1999/10/04 23:33:25 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: wrterm.c,v 1.6 1997/10/20 01:07:55 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: getmntopts.c,v 1.6 1999/11/09 15:06:33 drochner Exp $
$NetBSD: cu.c,v 1.6 1997/11/22 07:28:42 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: dn11.c,v 1.6 1998/07/12 09:14:20 mrg Exp $
$NetBSD: getmntopts.c,v 1.6 1999/11/09 15:06:33 drochner Exp $
$NetBSD: getmntopts.c,v 1.6 1999/11/09 15:06:33 drochner Exp $
$NetBSD: getmntopts.c,v 1.6 1999/11/09 15:06:33 drochner Exp $
$NetBSD: getmntopts.c,v 1.6 1999/11/09 15:06:33 drochner Exp $
$NetBSD: getmntopts.c,v 1.6 1999/11/09 15:06:33 drochner Exp $
$NetBSD: getmntopts.c,v 1.6 1999/11/09 15:06:33 drochner Exp $
$NetBSD: pass2.c,v 1.6 2000/01/28 16:01:46 bouyer Exp $
$NetBSD: misc.c,v 1.6 1997/10/19 23:05:15 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: io.c,v 1.6 2000/04/17 23:37:30 christos Exp $
$NetBSD: opendisk.c,v 1.6 1999/09/20 04:48:07 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: keypad.c,v 1.6 2000/05/25 06:46:26 jdc Exp $
$NetBSD: border.c,v 1.6 2000/04/24 14:09:42 blymn Exp $
$NetBSD: copywin.c,v 1.6 2000/04/26 12:29:47 blymn Exp $
$NetBSD: kvm.c,v 1.65.4.1 2001/02/03 20:32:33 he Exp $
$NetBSD: cfsetspeed.c,v 1.6 2000/01/22 22:19:21 mycroft Exp $
$NetBSD: cfsetospeed.c,v 1.6 2000/01/22 22:19:21 mycroft Exp $
$NetBSD: cfsetispeed.c,v 1.6 2000/01/22 22:19:21 mycroft Exp $
$NetBSD: cfgetospeed.c,v 1.6 2000/01/22 22:19:21 mycroft Exp $
$NetBSD: cfgetispeed.c,v 1.6 2000/01/22 22:19:21 mycroft Exp $
$NetBSD: setjmperr.c,v 1.6 1997/07/13 19:46:14 christos Exp $
$NetBSD: raise.c,v 1.6 1997/07/13 19:46:10 christos Exp $
$NetBSD: execlp.c,v 1.6 2000/01/22 22:19:09 mycroft Exp $
$NetBSD: killpg.c,v 1.6 1998/02/02 06:26:38 perry Exp $
$NetBSD: base64.c,v 1.6 1999/09/20 04:39:10 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: nsparser.y,v 1.6 1999/11/28 05:46:15 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: vm_machdep.c,v 1.65.2.2 2001/08/16 13:33:15 tv Exp $
$NetBSD: rasops2.c,v 1.6 2000/06/13 13:36:57 ad Exp $

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Lou

Jason Simpson wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Siva Arumugam wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Does anyone have available online a z50-fixed kernel
>>that can suspend the lcd?  I'm afraid that (for space
>>reasons) I have no compiler tools installed.
>>
>>Failing that, instructions on how to brew one up from
>>OS X (alas!) would be great.  Or would I need to
>>install NetBSD on my G4 to cross-compile?
>>    
>>
>
>I'm in the same boat. I just plopped NetBSD 1.6.1 onto my z50, but now I
>find out that the LCD suspend function is disabled in the generic kernel,
>and I have no compiler nor GDB (nor knowledge enough of GDB to use it) to
>tweak the kernel image appropriately.
>
>Does anyone have a 1.6.1 kernel for the z50 with LCD suspend enabled that
>they can make available for download?
>
>	Thanks.
>	-jrs
>
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