--------------- I just tried my first serious "work day" using my Alpha 400. Python is incredibly slow (I built 2.6, as my work code uses stuff absent from Python 2.4), but usable. I just work harder to keep from having to restart and reload my system!
The unit is easy to bring along. And it runs basically stone cold, which is a real win for me--I hate that "baked wrists" experience most laptops deliver. But the keyboard is a dead loss... it seems like the state for shift, control, and alt gets hosed at some point, and then weird things happen like shift will no longer be recognized, so you can't get symbols on shift of numbers, and so forth. I've experiemented, and it seems like it's the bottom level keyboard driver in the kernel (I don't use X). I really can't afford to be rebooting every ~10 minutes, but I've found no way to recover from this sort of hosed state. Does anybody have enough kernel source to build the kernel image these things ship with? I've hacked OS code in past lives, and would be happy to see if some repairs can be effected. Alternatively, how's the 2.6 kernel work coming along? I'd need base OS and WiFi drivers. Mouse and graphics I can ignore. Thanks, Andy Valencia _______________________________________________ Mipsbook-devel mailing list Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel
