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On Mar 9, 2004, at 5:31 PM, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
>
> On Mar 9, 2004, at 5:36 PM, Anthony Chavez wrote:
>
>> I've been interested in running FreeBSD/ppc on my 17" PowerBook 
>> G4---in
>> multi-user mode, of course.  Is this possible at this point, or am I
>> just fantasizing? ;-)
>
>   It works properly on my 15" Powerbook, and most (non-X) ports I have 
> tried seem to be working. However, the keyboard doesn't work yet, as 
> there is no driver for ADB. Also, it sometimes panics under heavy IO 
> load. Other than that, it's fine, and progress is being made.
>

Of course you can disable syscons at the bootloader and then use the 
keyboard just fine. :)

Dave

> Later,
>   Suleiman Souhlal
>
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