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From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:19:39 -0500
To: Peter Grehan <peterg@ptree32.com.au>
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Great.!!! trying now :)

Dave
On Oct 24, 2003, at 1:34 AM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> I've put up a tarball at:
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc-root-102303.tbz2
>
> (STOP PRESS: the loader in the tarball missed out on a vital
> isync patch: please replace with the loader at
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/loader)
>
> The kernel contains a syscons module that uses the 8-bit frame buffer 
> set
> up by OpenFirmware, so it should look very familiar to FreeBSD/i386 
> users.
> It currently relies on having a USB keyboard, so if you have a system 
> that
> uses an ADB keyboard (e.g. early iBooks, B&W G3), then you have to 
> either
> attach a USB keyboard, or disable syscons at the loader prompt to use 
> the
> old ofw console
>
>    OK set hw.syscons.disable=1
>
>  But don't do this unless you really have to. Since USB is enabled in 
> the
> kernel, this doesn't work too well on boxes with USB keyboards, but 
> then,
> syscons is a way better console environment than ofwcons.
>
>  For those who haven't installed before, there's some very terse 
> instructions
> at:
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html
>
> Make sure to have a strong sense of adventure and know how to use the
> programmer's switch :-) And for kicks, syscons users should try this
> on the console:
>
>  # sh /usr/share/examples/dialog/radiolist
>
>  ... and verify the first radio button :-) Also, check out VTY 
> switching
> using Alt-F? (aka Option-F?).
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
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