OpenBSD on the Powerbook
I was looking at the OpenBSD changes since 3.8 was released and I noticed they added a new driver for the touchpads in the new Powerbooks/iBooks. I had 3.8 on here but the external mouse and lack of multiple consoles made me try ubuntu on the Powerbook. Ubuntu was ok but there were several patches and every patch seemed to break something else. I had it working pretty good except the cpu was still running at full speed on battery. I wanted BSD on here so the fight was over. I immediatedly grabbed the latest snapshot and blew away the ubuntu install on here.
A quick netinstall and it’s time to find out if my touchpad works on here. I login, fire up X and the touchpad works great. I started building ports and it was smooth and working well during that. I took the laptop home after work. I started it up again and it was erratic and I had to plug in an external mouse. I tried it again later and it works fine again. Guess I’ll need to play with it some more. I’m just happy it’s making progress.