I have had OpenBSD 4.2 on the Zaurus C3100 for years now, and in need of further (latest) software, I decided to upgrade.
There are at least three problems that did not exist on 4.2: 1. When the system gets to the 'boot>' prompt, it fails, as it's unable to find /bsd, for whatever reason. Of course, I just load the Linux partition with the 'b' and 'd' key combination, and run: $ insmod zbsd... $ cp bsd /proc/zboot and it's off, booting as it always used to, after which everything works as usual. 2. When the device comes out of sleep/suspend, it never brings back the backlight, forcing the following: $ wsconsctl display.backlight=100 which is a tad inconvenient, as I may not be in a shell (having suspended with the lid), and as the keyboard isn't exactly accurate, often sending more than one character for one keypress. 3. X just doesn't work-it tries to load, returning half a minute later with an error message. While none of these are complete show-stoppers, the booting always worked fine, in all the versions up to 4.2, the backlight wasn't a problem, and X worked. On the other hand, it is nice that the SD card is now recognised. I've tried all of this with a snapshot (from the 2nd of August, I think), and the same problems remain. Now, I know this platform isn't the hot topic it used to be, but it still has its (numerous) uses. Is it being worked on, or is it on its way to deprecation? If it is still alive, is anyone using it, and experiencing the same problems? Perhaps with some solutions? Hope there's still some life left in this platform's support yet. Regards, Sacha
