Hello,
I installed a recent snapshot (i386) on the mac 5,5 and the nv driver
seems to not be able to work. I have to resort to vesa to get X
working. I thought somebody had mentioned s/he had got it working.
Re. azalia: If more testing is needed, I can help. I am now on the way
of downloading and installing the most recent amd64 snapshot on the
laptop.
Thanks in any case for the input.
Cheers,
Pau
2010/3/26 Ted Roby <ted.roby@gmail.com>:
quoted text > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet <
> jean-philippe@ouellet.biz> wrote:
>
>> On 3/25/10 12:44 PM, Ted Roby wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Lars Nooden<lars.curator@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3/24/10 21:02 , Pau wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was also wondering whether it is possible to have openbsd on the
>>>>
>>>>> laptop as the only OS. I am guessing that the EFI could give trouble.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I've done that with the older macbook pros. I'm sure the openfirmware
>>>> could be set to boot straight into OpenBSD, but would need a good OF
>>>> reference first. If you leave it as-is, the firmware takes a long time
>>>> to
>>>> find the system.
>>>>
>>>> Leaving a minimal OS X partition and using rEFIt to boot 'legacy first',
>>>> it
>>>> quickly goes into openbsd as the default. If you leave off all the
>>>> language variants and excess printer drivers, then OS X is about 20 GB.
>>>>
>>>> /Lars
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually, a default install of OSX without localizations and printer
>>> support
>>> is only 4.5 GB.
>>> You can reduce the partition it is installed on to that, plus the size
of
quoted text >>> your memory.
>>> So, OSX allowed me to shrink my HFS+ partition (with 4 GB ram) down to
9.5
quoted text >>> GB.
>>>
>>> I used diskutil resize to do this after install.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, if you're not going to use OSX, you shouldn't need to have it on
>> your disk at all because you can put rEFIt on a small EFI partition at the
>> beginning of your disk and use bless(8) from an OSX dvd or whatever to set
>> it to boot. Such an EFI partition was silently created if you used Disk
>> Utility to set up your disk (and exists by default on macs when you buy
>> them).
>>
>> I had it set up like this on my old MacBook1,1 but have not tried it on my
>> MacBookPro5,3 although I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
>>
>>
> Actually, I use it.
