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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD(oldvcr.blogspot.com)
71 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 13 comments
userbinator 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base.

the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2.

Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an ARM VM and discovered it had a "VGA-compatible" GPU emulating an old ISA-class chip.

bentley 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed out, GTK has a rather sizeable number of dependencies; building the framebuffer frontend instead would save a lot of time.

classichasclass 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.

bentley 2 hours ago | parent [-]

/usr/ports/www/netsurf/netsurf-fb/

classichasclass an hour ago | parent [-]

Thanks, I'll try that.

anthk an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Mainline Dillo runs faster and smoother, it's just an fltk + git clone && configure +make install away.

JdeBP 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The wsconscfg problem with multiple screens, whatever it exactly is, is decidedly odd. According to this, the display is being driven as smfb0 in what is largely a dumb framebuffer mode, no acceleration, no GPU, no fancy high jinks whatsoever. wscons/wsdisplay should have no difficulty with multiple screens on that sort of thing.

anthk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.

iberator 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Acer aspire one with NetBSD

shrubble 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?

stevefan1999 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I still think it is very cursed to see that image of RMS using that laptop despite I was shocked to see it 12 years ago. Still shocks me to this day.

em-bee 4 hours ago | parent [-]

what is shocking about it?

sellmesoap 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think because it's RMS champion of digital openess using using an archaine Chinese laptop, it's the dichotomy of China providing a product that's essentially more free (of binary blob firmware) then a western equivalent laptop. Take heed and dispare oh ye providers of win modems!