Re: OpenBSD on my TiBook

[Christopher Ingram <cmi@crystalsands.net>]

This should be in the macppc list but I dual boot into OBSD 3.3 on my 
iBook...

(Sorry for the jumble, but I had to text-wrap your reply.)

Javier Solorzano wrote:

> I decided to wipe out from existance OS X from my TiBook and run
> OpenBSD 3.3 instead. The install was quite straight forward once I
> got my disk geometry in fdisk right. OpenBSD mostly works on TiBook
> but it has several problems that range from would-be-nice-to-have to
> really annoying problems. Help would be appreciated:
> 
> 1. Brightness keys. I read that the brightness and eject keys are
> supported but they don't work. 2. My keyboard layout is in spanish
> and it is all messed up. There seems to be no support for spanish
> layout. 3. Under KDE the layout is even worse, the backspace key
> works like a del key (so there is no backspace!) and Konsole prints a

Thats beacuse there isn't a "backspace" keep on Apple laptop keyboards. 
You'll need to us xmodmap to remap "Delete" to "Backspace".

xmodmap -e keysym Delete = Backspace

Don't quote me on the above though, its been awhile.

> ~ for most of my non alpha keys (like the backspace, so I don't have
> neither backspace nor del under kconsole) 4. The built-in trackpad
> only has one button so I need to use an external usb mouse. I've read
> that you can emulate the right button and should be quite easy once
> you know how to do it... 5. KDE's keyboard layout program does

This is discussed in /usr/X11R6/README. Included is a diff to set up 
some decent mappings.

> nothing. I've selected spanish macintosh layout but it does
> absolutely nothing. 6. apmd runs and will give you the battery
> status. However the computer is running really hot and the fan is on
> most of the time. Battery life has gone down to under one hour (as

Power management isn't supported yet. While you can get the current 
battery level, things like performance throttling aren't implemented. 
Your flooring your TiBook. Be gentle.

> opposed to almost three with OS X). KDE has problems reporting the
> battery status with the Power Management icon, but gkrellms does a
> good job. 7. When I exit my X session the screen is totaly messed up
> and the screen wabbles. Rebooting fixes the screen. 8. Reboot works
> great, but shutting down with -h won't power off the computer. After
> the disk sync the display turns white and you have to force power off
> by pressing the key for 5 secs.

I've had this problem on my iBook sporadiclly. However due to a problem 
with the Dual USB iBooks, its best to restart, then shut down. (In case 
anyone is having similar problems and is dual booting).

> 
> Sound and Firewire are not working but I already knew they were not
> supported.
> 
> Here's my dmesg output:
> 
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