Re: OpenBSD on my TiBook

[Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:26:05 +0200
Javier Solorzano <jsolorz@mac.com> 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:
:
Hello.  I use OpenBSD on my TiBook all the time, and it works very well as my main system.

:1. Brightness keys. I read that the brightness and eject keys are supported
:but they don't work. 
There is some work being done in current, but it doesn't quite work for our TiBook version.  Once I de-slack, I'll get the nessacary info for it to be supported.

:2. My keyboard layout is in spanish and it is all
:messed up. There seems to be no support for spanish layout. 
Check out xmodmap

: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 ~ for most of my non alpha keys
:(like the backspace, so I don't have neither backspace nor del under
:kconsole) 
xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = BackSpace"

I have that in my .xinitrc, and that fixes that.

: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... 
I have not tried to get 3 button w/o an external mouse.  I like my scroll wheel.  I think you are looking for the instructions at /usr/X11R6/README

:5. KDE's keyboard layout
:program does nothing. I've selected spanish macintosh layout but it does
:absolutely nothing. 
Bummer.  I don't run KDE, it takes up too much screen space.

: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 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. 
Yup. Blame Apple.  They won't play nice, and give anyone documentation.  Istr getting better battery life than that though.  There was a commit to -current that improved battery life for the G4 processors.

:7. When I exit my X
:session the screen is totaly messed up and the screen wabbles. Rebooting
:fixes the screen. 
You can also start X again, that restores the screen for me.  That is a known issue, and hopefully the XFree86 people are working on it.

: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.
:
shutdown -hp now powers it off.  The -p tells the machine to power off.  The -h tells it just to halt.


:Sound and Firewire are not working but I already knew they were not
:supported. 
:
I use an iMic from Griffen for sound.  In -stable it panics when you stop the sound stream, but in -current, it is *very* stable.


:Here's my dmesg output:
:
:[ using 311836 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
:console out [ATY,Stone_A]console in [keyboard] ADB found
:using parent ATY,StoneParent:: memaddr b8000000 size 8000000, : consaddr
:bc008000, : ioaddr b0020000, size 20000: memtag 8000, iotag 8000: width
:1152 linebytes 1280 height 768 depth 8 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989,
:1991, 1993
:        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
:Copyright (c) 1995-2003 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. 
:http://www.OpenBSD.org
:
:OpenBSD 3.3 (GENERIC) #39: Sat Mar 29 13:18:14 MST 2003
:    deraadt@macppc.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC
:real mem = 536870912 (524288K)
:avail mem = 484810752 (473448K)
:using 1254 buffers containing 26841088 bytes of memory
:mainbus0 (root)
:cpu0 at mainbus0: 7450 (Revision 201): 667 MHz: 256KB L2 cache
:memc0 at mainbus0: uni-n
:mpcpcibr0 at mainbus0: uni-north, Revision 0xff
:pci0 at mpcpcibr0 bus 0
:pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 AGP" rev 0x00
:vgafb0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY" rev 0x00, mmio
:wsdisplay0 at vgafb0: console (std, vt100 emulation)
:mpcpcibr1 at mainbus0: uni-north, Revision 0x0
:pci1 at mpcpcibr1 bus 0
:pchb1 at pci1 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 Host" rev 0x00
:macobio0 at pci1 dev 23 function 0 "Apple Keylargo" rev 0x03
:openpic0 at macobio0: version 0x4614
:gpio_obio0 at macobio0
:gpio_obio1 at gpio_obio0 irq 47
:programmer-switch at gpio_obio0 not configured
:firewire-linkon at gpio_obio0 not configured
:gpio5 at gpio_obio0 not configured
:gpio6 at gpio_obio0 not configured
:gpio11 at gpio_obio0 not configured
:extint-gpio15 at gpio_obio0 not configured
:zsc0 at macobio0: irq 22,23
:zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
:zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
:adb0 at macobio0 irq 25: via-pmu 3 targets
:aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
:akbd0 at adb0 addr 2: iBook keyboard with inverted T (ISO layout)
:wskbd0 at akbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard, using
:wsdisplay0 ams0 at adb0 addr 3: EMP trackpad <tpad> 2-button, 400 dpi
:wsmouse0 at ams0 mux 0
:abtn0 at adb0 addr 7: brightness/volume/eject buttons
:apm0 at adb0: battery flags 0x5, 99% charged
:wdc0 at macobio0 irq 19: DMA transfer
:wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-IC25N030ATDA04-0>
:wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 28615MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 58605120
:sectors wd0(wdc0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4
:wdc1 at macobio0 irq 20: DMA transfer
:atapiscsi0 at wdc1 channel 0 drive 0
:scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
:cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-RW CW-8121, AX21> SCSI0 5/cdrom
:removable cd0(wdc1:0:0): using BIOS timings, DMA mode 2
:wdc2 at macobio0 irq 21: DMA transfer
:wi0 at macobio0 irq 57:
:wi0: Firmware 8.70 variant 1, address 00:30:65:1c:48:cb
:ohci0 at pci1 dev 24 function 0 "Apple USB" rev 0x00: irq 27, OHCI version
:1.0 usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
:uhub0 at usb0
:uhub0: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
:uhidev0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
:uhidev0: Cypress Sem PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse, rev 1.00/0.10, addr 2,
:iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
:wsmouse0 at ams0 mux 0
:abtn0 at adb0 addr 7: brightness/volume/eject buttons
:apm0 at adb0: battery flags 0x5, 99% charged
:wdc0 at macobio0 irq 19: DMA transfer
:wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-IC25N030ATDA04-0>
:wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 28615MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 58605120
:sectors wd0(wdc0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4
:wdc1 at macobio0 irq 20: DMA transfer
:atapiscsi0 at wdc1 channel 0 drive 0
:scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
:cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-RW CW-8121, AX21> SCSI0 5/cdrom
:removable cd0(wdc1:0:0): using BIOS timings, DMA mode 2
:wdc2 at macobio0 irq 21: DMA transfer
:wi0 at macobio0 irq 57:
:wi0: Firmware 8.70 variant 1, address 00:30:65:1c:48:cb
:ohci0 at pci1 dev 24 function 0 "Apple USB" rev 0x00: irq 27, OHCI version
:1.0 usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
:uhub0 at usb0
:uhub0: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
:uhidev0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
:uhidev0: Cypress Sem PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse, rev 1.00/0.10, addr 2,
:iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
:wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0
:ohci1 at pci1 dev 25 function 0 "Apple USB" rev 0x00: irq 28, OHCI version
:1.0 usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
:uhub1 at usb1
:uhub1: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
:cbb0 at pci1 dev 26 function 0 "Texas Instruments PCI1410 PCI-CardBus" rev
:0x02: irq 58 cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
:cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 1 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x20
:pcmcia0 at cardslot0
:mpcpcibr2 at mainbus0: uni-north, Revision 0xff
:pci2 at mpcpcibr2 bus 0
:pchb2 at pci2 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 Host" rev 0x00
:"AT&T/Lucent FW322 1394" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 14 function 0 not configured
:gem0 at pci2 dev 15 function 0 "Apple GMAC" rev 0x01
:gem0: address 00:03:93:82:3b:56
:eephy0 at gem0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1000* Gigabit PHY
:gem0: using irq 41 for interrupt
:bootpath: '/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0/bsd'
:boot device: wd0.
:root on wd0a
:rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0xb00 rawdev=0xb02
:
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