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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:48:01 -0800
From:      Holland Rhodes <gavers@mac.com>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboards and new PowerBook G4s [Was: Re: KBD_INSTALL_CDEV]
Message-ID:  <38BF2085-3D5E-4389-BB21-85249BD992BB@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051120170204.GN94004@submonkey.net>
References:  <43802D81.3010601@sharma-home.net> <DA2AD10D-2747-4614-BC48-A454249DBAAB@bc.edu> <20051120170204.GN94004@submonkey.net>

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I just now tried booting SNAP-7.0 on my PowerBook which is of the  
newer variety where the internal keyboard is USB, and it wasn't  
usable. I tried booting by doing set hint.pcib.1.skipslot=26 (since  
it has Bluetooth) and that also didn't work.


On Nov 20, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:29:14AM -0500, jt wrote:
>> I suppose it could depend upon the version you have...are you running
>> the latest.iso? which would be SNAP-7.0.  On my powerbook this
>> functions correctly running the latest....but supposing this is a
>> laptop do not get to comfortable with your USB keyboard as there
>> *should* be a resolution coming to ADB keyboards soon...hope this
>> helps you out...
>
> Aha!  So the keyboard problem is limited to ADB attached keyboards.
> The new PowerBooks have the keyboards attached via USB; do they work?
>
> Ceri
> -- 
> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and  
> I'm
> not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)




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