Two New Machines

jt james.toy at bc.edu
Tue Nov 15 19:00:25 PST 2005


Currently running the 7.0-CURRENT snap I have a dual processor G4 (2003) and
a G4 Powerbook 867 15" (2002) -- working great...just thought we could add
'em to the list.  =)

-jt


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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:39:17 +1000
> From: Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: 7.0-snap on iBook G4 + few questions
> To: Christopher Illies <christopher.illies at ki.se>
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>> It worked on my iBook, using a ports tree from Nov 12. Xorg starts and works
> fine.
> 
>  Good to hear. The one problem I continued to have with Xorg was that vt
> switching back to a terminal left the screen in a 'faded' state where it was
> difficult to read text. Switching back to X worked fine though.
> 
>  Do you still see this ?
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> later,
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> Peter.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:24:53 +0100
> From: Christopher Illies <christopher.illies at ki.se>
> Subject: Re: 7.0-snap on iBook G4 + few questions
> To: Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org>
> Cc: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20051115072453.GA12823 at Klabautermann.ks.se>
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:39:17AM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
>>> It worked on my iBook, using a ports tree from Nov 12. Xorg starts and works
>> fine.
>> 
>>  Good to hear. The one problem I continued to have with Xorg was that vt
>> switching back to a terminal left the screen in a 'faded' state where it was
>> difficult to read text. Switching back to X worked fine though.
>> 
>>  Do you still see this ?
> 
> No, vt switching with Xorg works without problems on my iBook.
> 
> The system did crash 3 times while installing ports, though. But I do
> not have time to look further into this before the weekend.
> 
> Christopher
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