Subject: Re: NetBSD 3.0 on Powermac 9500
To: Kjell Konis <konis@stats.ox.ac.uk>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/02/2006 14:31:00
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Hello,

> So first question: how do I look up/attach a comment to my problem
> report?

Mail to gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, with 'Re: kern/xxxxx' as subject (
obviously replace 'kern/xxxxx with your real PR ID ) - the whole mail
will be appended to the PR. To lookup PRs use
http://gnats.netbsd.org/Misc/query-pr.html

> When the kernel is compiling, "-Wa,-maltivec" is always among the C =20
> flags.  What does that comma mean?  Is it just for warnings or is it =20
> actually including Altivec support?

This means that '-maltivec' is passed to the assembler as command line
option.

> Also, I have an ABD AppleDesign keyboard.  It works fine under =20
> Xmacppc but several of the keys (notably backspace, delete, and the =20
> up, right and left arrow keys) don't work under XFree86.  Has anyone =20
> gotten one of these to work XFree86?

Both my UMAX labeled Extended II and the built-in keyboard in my iBook
work just fine without any xmodmap stunts. I did lots of keymap-related
fixes and (almost) all of them should be in 3.0
You probably have an XF86Config left over from an older install? Check
the keyboard section, use the 'kbd' driver, not 'keyboard' as in:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option      "Protocol" "wskbd"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/wskbd0"
EndSection

Yes, the XkbModel statement is a blatant lie but XFree translates
everything into some PC-derived set of scancodes before passing anything
to xkb.

have fun
Michael

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