I've installed OpenBSD 4.6 on hw.vendor=Apple Computer, Inc. hw.product=PowerMac3,5 hw.physmem=1073741824 hw.usermem=1073729536
The OS runs fine, however, certain X desktop environments seem to not want to cooperate. Of the 3, KDE seems to run the best, however, the audio is broken. When I first login, the login wav starts playing but then after 1 second starts playing noise. It would be nice to have audio (maybe KDE can somehow play through aucat?). Gnome looks really great, but after a few seconds becomes unresponsive to key clicks or keyboard typing. Only way out is ctrl-alt-backspace. XFCE also starts up fine, but after a few second also becomes unresponsive much like gnome and needs ctrl-alt-backspace. Is there something wrong with these X environments on powerpc? WindowMaker works as always, but I wanted to try out other options. :-) Here is a dmesg: [ using 437516 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] console out [NVDA,Display-B]console in [keyboard] , using USB using parent NVDA,Parent:: memaddr 98000000 size 8000000, : consaddr 98004000, : ioaddr 91000000, size 1000000: memtag 8000, iotag 8000: width 640 linebytes 1024 height 480 depth 8 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2009 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 4.6-stable (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 31 23:57:47 MDT 2010 r...@some.domain.dom:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC real mem = 1073741824 (1024MB) avail mem = 1032957952 (985MB) mainbus0 at root: model PowerMac3,5 cpu0 at mainbus0: 7455 (Revision 0x201): 933 MHz: 256KB L2 cache, 2MB L3 cache mem0 at mainbus0 spdmem0 at mem0: 256MB SDRAM non-parity PC133CL2 spdmem1 at mem0: 512MB SDRAM non-parity PC133CL2 spdmem2 at mem0: 256MB SDRAM non-parity PC133CL3 memc0 at mainbus0: uni-n kiic0 at memc0 offset 0xf8001000 iic0 at kiic0 mpcpcibr0 at mainbus0 pci: uni-north, Revision 0xff pci0 at mpcpcibr0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 AGP" rev 0x00 vgafb0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440" rev 0xa2, mmio wsdisplay0 at vgafb0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation) mpcpcibr1 at mainbus0 pci: uni-north, Revision 0x0 pci1 at mpcpcibr1 bus 0 pchb1 at pci1 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 Host" rev 0x00 macobio0 at pci1 dev 23 function 0 "Apple Keylargo" rev 0x03 openpic0 at macobio0 offset 0x40000: version 0x4614 little endian macgpio0 at macobio0 offset 0x50 macgpio1 at macgpio0 irq 47 "programmer-switch" at macgpio0 not configured "gpio5" at macgpio0 not configured "gpio6" at macgpio0 not configured "gpio11" at macgpio0 not configured "extint-gpio15" at macgpio0 not configured "extint-gpio16" at macgpio0 not configured "escc-legacy" at macobio0 offset 0x12000 not configured zsc0 at macobio0 offset 0x13000: irq 22,23 zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1 tumbler0 at macobio0 offset 0x10000: irq 30,1,2 "timer" at macobio0 offset 0x15000 not configured adb0 at macobio0 offset 0x16000 irq 25: via-pmu, 0 targets apm0 at adb0: battery flags 0x9, 0% charged kiic1 at macobio0 offset 0x18000 iic1 at kiic1 wdc0 at macobio0 offset 0x1f000 irq 19: DMA wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-IC35L060AVER07-0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 58644MB, 120103200 sectors wd1 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 1: <Maxtor 96147U8> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 58623MB, 120060864 sectors wd0(wdc0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 wd1(wdc0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 wdc1 at macobio0 offset 0x20000 irq 20: DMA atapiscsi0 at wdc1 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <PIONEER, DVD-RW DVR-104, A227> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(wdc1:0:0): using BIOS timings, DMA mode 2 wdc2 at macobio0 offset 0x21000 irq 21: DMA audio0 at tumbler0 ohci0 at pci1 dev 24 function 0 "Apple USB" rev 0x00: irq 27, version 1.0 ohci1 at pci1 dev 25 function 0 "Apple USB" rev 0x00: irq 28, version 1.0 usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Apple OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Apple OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 mpcpcibr2 at mainbus0 pci: uni-north, Revision 0xff pci2 at mpcpcibr2 bus 0 pchb2 at pci2 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 Host" rev 0x00 "AT&T/Lucent FW322 1394" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 14 function 0 not configured gem0 at pci2 dev 15 function 0 "Apple Uni-N GMAC" rev 0x01: irq 41, address 00:03:93:7d:28:01 brgphy0 at gem0 phy 0: BCM5421 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 1 uhidev0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Logitech USB Receiver" rev 1.10/17.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 "Logitech USB Receiver" rev 1.10/17.00 addr 2 uhidev1: iclass 3/1, 4 report ids ums0 at uhidev1 reportid 1: 16 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 2: input=2, output=0, feature=0 uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 3: input=1, output=0, feature=0 uhid2 at uhidev1 reportid 4: input=3, output=0, feature=0 softraid0 at root scsibus1 at softraid0: 1 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 0, 003> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 112746MB, 512 bytes/sec, 230904321 sec total bootpath: /p...@f2000000/mac...@17/at...@1f000/d...@0:/bsd root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b If someone has run KDE, Gnome, or XFCE successfully on powerpc I would appreciate any pointers if something special was required to get them working smoothly. Cheers.