Thanks.  I guess I'll keep learning Darwin and OS X
while I wait for NetBSD 1.6.  Maybe then I'll decide
to dual boot.

Thanks again!

Andrew Gould

--- "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
wrote:
> Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > 1. Does anyone know if there any problems with the
> new
> > video card? (The support site describes "Graphics
> > support" thusly ; "ATI Mobility Radeon graphics
> > accelerator with 16 MB of dedicated graphics
> memory
> > and AGP 2X support")
> 
> I don't know of problems, but I'm using XFree86 4,
> not the
> 3.3.whatever that was shipped. Since it works fine
> on my older
> (500MHz) iBook, I'll go out on a limb and assume it
> works fine.
> 
> > 2.  I have Wasabi's package set for 1.5.2.  Should
> I
> > wait for NetBSD 1.6?
> 
> Probably. Lots of good stuff in 1.6.
> 
> > 3.  If anyone has loaded NetBSD on one of these
> > computers, do you have any advice?
> 
>  * use the modem patch I just posted (unless by "new
> software modem"
>    you mean that they did something dumb. Since OS X
> supports it, we
>    should be able to steal the necessary code from
> them)
> 
>  * firerwire is not yet usable for what you would
> probably want to do
>    with it (video cameras, disks)
> 
>  * be aware that we have no power management support
> - we can't even
>    turn off the LCD backlight (which sucks. and I've
> tried to fix it).
>    I have a set of kluge patches to report whether
> AC power is
>    connected and the battery status, but haven't
> committed them,
>    because Fn-F1 causing a kernel printf is a pretty
> lousy
>    interface...
> 
>  * There's no audio driver yet. Also on my to-do
> list, but don't
>    expect to use it in NetBSD as a multimedia
> terminal; use OS X for
>    that.
> 
>         - Nathan


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