Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:40:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No kbd and no mouse on iBook G4 with Xorg? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903222333240.18715@banshee.munuc.org> In-Reply-To: <219DD0C7-8965-4216-B952-68975FF9CB55@mac.com> References: <219DD0C7-8965-4216-B952-68975FF9CB55@mac.com>
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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. -Nathan
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