Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
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Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#2I 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.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#3I 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.
what is shocking about it?
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#4The 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.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#5No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#6I 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.
what is shocking about it?
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!
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#7The 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.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#8The 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.
(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#9It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#10The 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.
(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.
/usr/ports/www/netsurf/netsurf-fb/