freeBSD & apple powerbook

[john at utzweb.net]

I'm sure he wont be running FreeBSD on it, unless there is a FreeBSD
PowerPC project that i am unaware of....

> hi,
>
> steve mentioned getting a powerbook titanium.  i had the new 867mHz, but
the
> video wasn't supported under linux at that time.  it is now.  i presume
that
> freeBSD won't have any trouble with it?  has anyone built one yet?
>
> --tom
>
>
> On Wednesday 23 April 2003 21:56, Scott Lambert wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:45:10PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote:
>> > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Chatchawan Wongsiriprasert wrote:
>> > >    If you just want a simple subset of toshutils function such as
>> > > setting CPU speed,
>> > > LCD brightness and FAN speed. I write a small utility for my
> Satelite
>> > > Pro 6100 , the program page is
>> > > http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/toshctl/index.html
>> >
>> > Hi -- this is great! This should be a port! To build on -current
> with gcc
>> > 3.2, I had to change the throw(runtime_error) calls to
>> > throw(std::runtime_error) and add an include for <ctype.h> to
>> > tosh_bios.cpp.
>> >
>> > It works fine on my satellite pro 6000.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on my Satellite 2805-S201,
> under
>> 5.0 anyway.  Bummer.  I still vote for turning it into a port.
>>
>> If I reboot, I will load up the 4.8 side and see if it works there.
>> Somehow, I think it will not.  Probably just hardware differences.
>>
>> The old fan.c used to work back in the earlier 4.x series.  I do not
>> remember when it stopped working.  I would like to have the ability
>> to force the fan to run all the time.  But it is not a big deal, my
>> right leg is accustomed to cooking under this laptop after more than
> two
>> years.
>>
>> But this Satellite is acting like it wants to die soon anyway.  That
>> will, finally, give me an excuse to get a titanium powerbook. :-)
>
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