Subject: Curious, was: TiBook (GigE) doesn't work with -current
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/12/2003 01:06:25
At 3:36 PM -0500 1/9/03, Allen Briggs wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:34:54PM -0800, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>>  I should clarify "doesn't work".  It boots to the question about
>>  terminal type.  The keyboard doesn't seem to do anything.
>
>Oh, that.  Plug in a USB keyboard or build yourself a kernel with a
>"special hack" to default to ADB instead of USB keyboard in
>machdep.c:consinit().
>
>Apple's removed our nifty auto-detection of keyboard type, so we need to
>figure out some other way to do it (maybe a lookup table like mac68k has
>for a bunch of stuff).

The -current INSTALL kernel doesn't work unless I plug in a USB 
keybaord.  OTOH the actual GENERIC kernel works just fine thank you.

I also note that the screen font is substantially different between 
the two.  The INSTALL kernel uses a much smaller, less bold size.
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