PowerBook 12" hangs right after attaching ams0

Andreas Tobler andreast-list at fgznet.ch
Wed Oct 29 23:40:59 PDT 2008


Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> After using finnix to partition my PowerBook's hard driver (thanks
> Horst), I managed to install FreeBSD properly. I still have to look into
> the boot loader issue, but I first want to get the keyboard working.
> 
> I upgraded from the Oct 2008 snapshot CD to yesterday evening's HEAD.
> After recompiling the kernel and booting it, it gets stuck right after
> attaching ams0. I don't have time to copy the entire dmesg by hand here,
> so here are the last messages when I `boot -v':
> 
> | adb0: <Apple Desktop Bus> on pmu0
> | akbd0: <iBook Keyboard> at device 2 on adb0
> | kbd: new array size 4
> | kbd1 at akbd0
> | ams0: <ADB Mouse> at device 3 on adb0
> 
> Nathan, is there some special kernel compile switch/command I can run to
> provide you with more data?
> 

Fyi, I see the same behavior on an albook G4. But with a previous 
version of the patch it did work. Will investigate tonight.

Thanks,
Andreas


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