No kbd and no mouse on iBook G4 with Xorg?

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sun Mar 22 21:41:07 PDT 2009



On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Did someone manage to get X working on an iBook G4, running
> FreeBSD -current (rev r190283) and with Xorg 1.5.3?
>
> The keyboard (akbd) and mouse (ums0/ums1/sysmouse) don't seem
> to work for me.
>
> I have kernel config, dmesg, xorg.conf, etc here:
> 	http://ns1.xcllnt.net/~marcel/machines/ibook/
>

The keyboard should work fine -- maybe you've been bitten by the stupid 
mouse blocking thing in Xorg 7.4? I put my working xorg.conf for almost
the same machine at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/xorg.ibook.conf

The mouse is another issue. Apple's two-finger scrolling trackpads claim to be
standard USB mice, but are not. Instead, they just transfer the pressure
everywhere on their sensor grids continuously, and require a new driver. 
This is pbms(4) on NetBSD.
-Nathan


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