Re: -current on 15-inch Aluminum PowerBook G4

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

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Michael wrote:

> "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > radeonfb must be disabled or the console becomes illegible.  The display
>
> Which model is it ( or rather, what's the PCI ID ) ?
> Hardware character drawing is known broken on r3xx and newer and
> radeonfb should use software there, apparently that didn't hapen so
> I'd like to know why.

  genfb0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 
(M10/11) NP (rev. 0x00)
  genfb0: framebuffer at 0xb8008000, size 1280x854, depth 8, stride 1280

  $ pcictl pci0 list
  000:16:0: ATI Technologies Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 (M10/11) NP (VGA display)
  $ pcictl pci0 dump -d 16
  PCI configuration registers:
    Common header:
      0x00: 0x4e501002 0x02b00007 0x03000000 0x0000ff08

      Vendor Name: ATI Technologies (0x1002)
      Device Name: Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 (M10/11) NP (0x4e50)

> > [keyboard curiosities]
>
> That's a hack in the ukbd driver. I added code to translate keys to
> PMF events for gdium, doing the same for Apple keyboards should be
> trivial.

I got the xmodmap thing to work once.  I stopped X and restarted, loading
my custom .xmodmaprc, but Pointer_Button2 and Pointer_Button3 events seem
to be ignored, even though 'xev' reports them as being sent (remapped
keycodes 95, 96 (F11, F12)).

Other interesting things reported by 'xev' is that all Fn-Fkey
combinations send keycode 8 (Mode_Shift) regardless of other modifiers
and the Cmd keys both send keycode 115 (Super_L), Shift-Option is
Meta_L, Fn-Option is Alt_R, and Fn-Shift-Option is Meta_R.
Fn-Shift-<embedded keypad> generates their numeric bindings.

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