Re: -current on PowerBook G4 667 (TiBook)

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, John D. Baker wrote:

> That's what I was hoping for.  I tried every Fn-Fkey combination but
> it sent brightness/volume controls regardless of whether or not I held
> the Fn key down.  Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention.

I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention.  Fn-Fkey does produce
some sort of function string.  Cmd-Fn-F[1-5] does definitely switch
screens.

And if you get things in the wrong order:

> > > the key combination "Fn-LCmd" is treated as though the power switch
> > > was pressed.

I'm guesing powerd intercepts this and begins a normal shutdown and
poweroff, but it never completes.  At this point, pressing Fn-LCmd
again elicits a kernel message:

  adbkbd0: power switch pressed, shutting down.

(or something like that--it happens too quick) and the machine immediately
powers off.

> > Is there an 'EDID' property?

There is an EDID1 property.  See:

  http://bobdbob.com/~jdbaker/nbsd-debug/TiBook-ofctl-p.txt

Another curious thing is that "X -configure" says "nothing to
configure" and exits without even a bare-bones xorg.conf.  See:

  http://bobdbob.com/~jdbaker/nbsd-debug/TiBook-X-config-fail.txt

X runs well enough with its built-in configuration, but throws some
curious warnings about being unable to map IO space, it can't enable
DRM, and a couple of expected modules are not present:

  http://bobdbob.com/~jdbaker/nbsd-debug/TiBook-builtin-defs-Xorg.0.log

And it gets the size of my 15-inch TiBook's LCD panel wrong.  Using the
notes in the log file, I assembled a minimal xorg.conf and specified

  Options       "PanelSize"   "1152x768"

in the "Device" section (see radeon(4)) and the server was then able to
use the full width of my LCD panel.

> > By default F11 and F12 act as middle and right button. You can change
> > that using sysctl, see adbkbd(4)

Indeed they do.  Since F11 has no extra hardware function the Fn key is
not needed.  Since F12 is normally the optical-drive eject button, one
must use Fn-F12 to get the right-button event.

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