I used to be really pumped about running NetBSD on MacPPC hardware, but the
novelty and appeal has all but vanished.   Don't get me wrong, I really like
NetBSD, and I use NetBSD on a couple of Mac68k machines.  I'm presently
using NetBSD 2.1 on an SGI Indy as well.  The PPC Macintosh computers
however, leave much to be desired.

I'm running Linux on my PPC Macintosh computers because NetBSD on these
machines is too dependent on the really buggy firmware.  NetBSD might run
fine on newer PPC Macintosh computers, but I'm of the mind that newer
machines are best suited to run Mac OS X.

Like I said, I'm not knocking the NetBSD folks...  I'm knocking Apple for
releasing such crappy hardware.   Bear in mind, my MacPPC experience is
pretty much limited to a 7300/200 which had the horrible chaos controller,
the 7200/90 that used the 601 processor and was not supported by NetBSD
(Yes, I've seen that the 601 is now supported in the 3.0 release), and a
PowerMac 9500/150 that was more trouble than it was worth.

My 7300 is back to running Mac OS 9 and is doing duty as an Appletalk file
server.  The 7200/90 is running Linux (Woody) and is doing duty as a
dhcp/bootp/tftp server for doing NetBSD installs on SGI hardware, and my
9500/150 is also now running Debian Linux.



> From: David H.Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:59:44 -0500
> To: <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
> Subject: XFree86 config file for iBook SE (clamshell graphite model)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've noticed several people posting on here in the last few days
> with X configuration questions for an original iBook.  I've been
> running the NetBSD 1.6 release series on mine (iBook SE, 366MHz,
> graphite clamshell) for over two-and-a-half years flawlessly
> (starting with 1.6.1, which shipped with XFree86 4.2.1).  I've
> attached my XFree86 config file in case it helps anyone else.
> (With the caveat that, as above, I haven't tried it with 2.x or 3.x
> or -current and their attendant versions of X, though I intend to
> upgrade to 3.0 some time next week.)  It runs at 16 bit depth,
> 800x600.  (I didn't try tinkering with the file much, but now
> that I think about it...)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave
> 
> # ibook xfree 4.2.0 configuration
> # base configuration from xf86cfg, tweaked using
> # hints from Matsubayashi 'Shaolin' Kohji shaolin@rhythmaning.org
> # and K. Hanai-san hanai@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier     "ibook"
> Screen         "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> Load  "dbe"
> Load  "extmod"
> Load  "glx"
> Load  "record"
> Load  "xtrap"
> Load  "speedo"
> Load  "type1"
> Load  "freetype"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> Driver      "keyboard"
> Option      "Protocol" "wskbd"
> Option      "Device" "/dev/wskbd0"
> Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option      "XkbModel" "macintosh"
> Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option      "XkbVariant" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier  "Mouse0"
> Driver      "mouse"
> Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"
> Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
> Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier   "Monitor0"
> VendorName   "Apple"
> ModelName    "LCD"
> HorizSync    31-80
> VertRefresh  56-76
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> Identifier  "Card0"
> Driver      "ati"
> Option      "device" "/dev/ttyC0"
> VendorName  "ATI"
> BoardName   "Mach 64"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device     "Card0"
> Monitor    "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 16
> 
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth    8
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth     16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth     24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
>