Subject: Re: New 17" Laptop
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/26/2003 07:09:11
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 01:32 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> ...the 1.6 bootable ISO loads fine, but the keyboard is dead
> afterwards.
> i'm assuming it's the usual bios-doesn't-know-how-to-hand-off-to-kernel
> issues but it's hard to tell, as this doesn't have a place to hook up a
> legacy keyboard. i suppose i can to setup netbooting and try a
> -current
> snaphot from releng*, that's just such a pain sometimes
Allen Briggs has added quirks for some new powerbook models in -current
which forces the kernel to use the adb keyboard if the firmware doesn't
indicate the console keyboard.
Great news that the 17'' model boots; I still have been unable to get
NetBSD to boot on my 15'' 1GHz model, though I have not yet had the
chance to try the ofwboot/kernel that Soren posted.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>