Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

stevefan1999

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.

JdeBP

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

No computer is obsolete with a BSD.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

bentley

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.

shrubble

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

userbinator

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.

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