Keyboards and new PowerBook G4s [Was: Re: KBD_INSTALL_CDEV]

[Holland Rhodes]

I just now tried booting SNAP-7.0 on my PowerBook which is of the  
newer variety where the internal keyboard is USB, and it wasn't  
usable. I tried booting by doing set hint.pcib.1.skipslot=26 (since  
it has Bluetooth) and that also didn't work.


On Nov 20, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:29:14AM -0500, jt wrote:
>> I suppose it could depend upon the version you have...are you running
>> the latest.iso? which would be SNAP-7.0.  On my powerbook this
>> functions correctly running the latest....but supposing this is a
>> laptop do not get to comfortable with your USB keyboard as there
>> *should* be a resolution coming to ADB keyboards soon...hope this
>> helps you out...
>
> Aha!  So the keyboard problem is limited to ADB attached keyboards.
> The new PowerBooks have the keyboards attached via USB; do they work?
>
> Ceri
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