oh boy oh boy oh boy! my z50 is going to be *really* happy in a couple
minutes!  now where's that darn PCMCIA adapter?....

:-)

adam, and especially greg, THANKS!!!!

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Greg Hughes wrote:
> 
> > I just got the TrackPoint code ported over to work with the CVS sources.
> > I've put it up on my NetBSD page:
> >
> >   http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gl2hughe/hpcmips/
> >
> > and it's first on the list (vrdsiu-z50tp-netbsd-20020405A.tar.gz).
> >
> > I just got this to work on my z50 about 30 minutes ago, so it hasn't
> > been thoroughly tested yet.  If the TP driver worked for you on older
> > kernels, the port should work with the current one.
> 
> Woohoo!!!  Works great here.  Applied the patch, recompiled the kernel,
> scp'ed it over to the z50 and my mouse pointer works again!
> 
> For anyone interested, I have posted another precompiled kernel at:
> 
> http://memory.visualtech.com/netbsd.gz
> 
> Our DNS is flaky, and we've been getting feedback from some people that
> nothing on our network is resolving, so if you have problems with that
> try:
> 
> http://208.16.19.49/netbsd.gz
> 
> This is -current from about two days ago, with Greg's patch applied.  I've
> left in support for all the networking devices from GENERIC, enabled LCD
> blanking, removed all USB code, and compiled it specifically for the
> VR4121 chipset.
> 
> Based on the feedback from Billy, it sounds like this will work just fine
> with NetBSD 1.5.1.
> 
> > Again, sorry for the long delay in getting this done!
> 
> Don't apologize!  Without you, it doesn't look the IBM z50 users would
> have ever gotten to use the track point under NetBSD :-)
> 
> Adam
>