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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

Posted by zdw |2 hours ago |6 comments

bentley 8 minutes ago

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.

JdeBP an hour ago

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 21 minutes ago

No computer is obsolete with a BSD.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

stevefan1999 2 hours ago[1 more]

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.