From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 03:25:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7C116A41C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 03:25:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from seanmwelch@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91AE543D53 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 03:25:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from seanmwelch@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 76083 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2005 03:25:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net) (seanmwelch@66.41.102.215 with plain) by smtp015.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jul 2005 03:25:57 -0000 Received: from NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j663OZDh020406; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:24:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from seanmwelch@yahoo.com) Received: (from welchsm@localhost) by NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j663OY1g020405; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:24:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from seanmwelch@yahoo.com) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:24:34 -0500 From: Sean Welch To: Peter Grehan Message-ID: <20050706032433.GA20376@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> References: <20050705163155.GA18493@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <42CB0C67.7030705@freebsd.org> <20050706011247.GA20055@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <42CB3243.2010804@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42CB3243.2010804@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac Mini and Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:25:59 -0000 On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:22:11AM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > I think a kernel should be OK. Note that I haven't run up a kernel for > about a month now (and won't be able to for another 1/2 day or so), so > there's a chance something might have broken in that time. I'll give that a shot then. > >Of course if you want to > >throw together a new snapshot I'd be more than willing to test it > >out for you. ;-) > > Let's do both :) Sure! I'll see what I can do in the next couple of days or so. > I think the main changes were #ifdef'd ppc, so if you have success > I'll file a PR. I have to say, the freebsd-x11 guys were *GREAT* in > getting my PR's pulled into the xorg port so quickly. Yeah, I've got a lot of respect for those guys. I'll post a note to the list if I do file one. > It's just the VTY. Going back to X works fine. I don't know if DPMS > works - I guess I never had it going for that long to see. Alright, that's a separate matter then. By the way, I use "xset dpms force off; xlock -mode blank" on my laptop to turn off the backlight and lock the screen. You do have to enable it in xorg.conf but it works well for me. I'll check that on the Mac when I get it running. Sean