Mol and ibook2 problems (keyboard!)

[Jamie Maynard]

Hi, before MOL will work on the iBook range you need to configure the
keyboard properly using the following command as root:

# startmol --keyconfig

If that doesn't work please e-mail back.

Jamie


On 4/10/02 6:41 pm, "Stefan Boresch" <stefan@mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> I have a working dual boot Linux // OS X 10.1.5 configuration on
> my ibook 2 (600 MHz, 12" LCD, ATI Rage128 card (not the Radeon!)).
> (The Linux used is Gentoo, and the kernel was compiled
> from the kernel sources provided by that distro, which I believe
> are a snapshot of Benjamin Herrenschmidt sources merged with some
> gentoo specific features; I am not really a ppc person, so I not
> following these things too closely; and purely in Linux
> everything works great).
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't get MOL to work (which emerged fine from
> the ebuild); maybe someone can help me:
> 
> Full screen mode: OS X starts up wonderfully.  However, I can't
> use the keyboard, e.g., in a terminal window, the first key I press
> gets repeated infinitely (just like I were running 'yes <key>').
> I suppose my ADB keyboard ID is c4; that's what dmesg seems
> to suggest, I also pass the kernel the
> keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 string.
> 
> Whenever I try to start mol (from console for full screen OS X), I
> get:  
> 
> ...
> Could not open proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes
> ...
> Adbcode -1 out of range (max=127)
> <repeated about 20 or so times>
> ...
> 
> Everything else seems OK.  Does anyone have suggestions what
> I can/could do? I am really stuck? Whatever I tried did not lead to
> any progress.  I'm happy to provide more info if needed.
> 
> A second question, but that is secondary: What combination of
> XF86 settings and molrc.video settings are people using on an
> ibook(2)? Normal X is working fine, OPEN GL is hardware accelerated.
> However, OS X started from X Windows is absolutely distorted colorwise, it
> looks as if it neither gets its own palette, nor does it get enough
> colors. This looks like it's going to be my second problem after the
> keyboard.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
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