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.r...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet < > jean-phili...@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.cura...@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 >>> your memory. >>> So, OSX allowed me to shrink my HFS+ partition (with 4 GB ram) down to 9.5 >>> 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.
