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Date:      Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:45:16 +0200
From:      Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: No kbd and no mouse on iBook G4 with Xorg?
Message-ID:  <4A2983DC.4050405@fgznet.ch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903222333240.18715@banshee.munuc.org>
References:  <219DD0C7-8965-4216-B952-68975FF9CB55@mac.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903222333240.18715@banshee.munuc.org>

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Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
>> Did someone manage to get X working on an iBook G4, running
>> FreeBSD -current (rev r190283) and with Xorg 1.5.3?
>>
>> The keyboard (akbd) and mouse (ums0/ums1/sysmouse) don't seem
>> to work for me.
>>
>> I have kernel config, dmesg, xorg.conf, etc here:
>>     http://ns1.xcllnt.net/~marcel/machines/ibook/
>>
> 
> The keyboard should work fine -- maybe you've been bitten by the stupid 
> mouse blocking thing in Xorg 7.4? I put my working xorg.conf for almost
> the same machine at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/xorg.ibook.conf
> 
> The mouse is another issue. Apple's two-finger scrolling trackpads claim 
> to be
> standard USB mice, but are not. Instead, they just transfer the pressure
> everywhere on their sensor grids continuously, and require a new driver. 
> This is pbms(4) on NetBSD.

Hm, so the kdb follows adb while the trackpad is usb? Did I got that right?

Here on my PowerBook G4 I have X11 with an external USB mouse working.

Now, if I got the above right, we would need the pbms(4) to have 
trackpad clicking support?

Just for understanding.

Andreas



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