freeBSD & apple powerbook

[Tom]

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. :-)