On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Tasmanian Devil<tasm.de...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> As detailed in the following message, it is possible to use a "magic tweak" >> to get the Mac mini into "server mode." >> >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120631459418290&w=2 >> >> This was accomplished with pcitweak which unfortunately no longer exists in >> X.Org. The only way to get it at this point is to install 4.3 upgrade to 4.4 >> and then to 4.5. I have also tried using pciutils from ports but this does >> not work at all on an Intel Mac mini running OpenBSD 4.5. Is there any other >> solution that works on 4.5? >> >> I have searched the archives and every place else I can possible think of as >> well as the web at large. I haven't been able to find anything thus far. Any >> help would be greatly appreciated. I know there are others running Intel Mac >> minis and I hope someone has a solution. Thank you. > > Yes, I saw pcitweak disappear, too, and I didn't see anything > regarding that on the lists. And no, I don't think you need to install > the whole OS to run pcitweak. You just need pcitweak and a few libs: > > $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/pcitweak > /usr/X11R6/bin/pcitweak: > Start End Type Open Ref GrpRef Name > 1c000000 3c005000 exe 1 0 0 /usr/X11R6/bin/pcitweak > 07e05000 27e0d000 rlib 0 1 0 /usr/lib/libm.so.4.0 > 0efc0000 2eff5000 rlib 0 1 0 /usr/lib/libc.so.49.0 > 0e800000 0e800000 rtld 0 1 0 /usr/libexec/ld.so > > I personally own a 4.3 (among others) CD set, so for me it's no > problem to extract the few files necessary to run pcitweak from the > CDs and add it to a new install by hand (wasn't necessary so far, I > always upgrade so far). Another option would be to download the old > release archives and extract the files from there, or you could get > the sources for pcitweak from the 4.3 source tree and compile it > yourself. > > Tas. > >
You can also write a small C program to do that. -- Matthieu Herrb
