From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3974C0DD.7097988A@execpc.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:41:01 -0500 From: Joseph Garcia MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Homeier CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: switching consoles References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Derek Homeier wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Joseph Garcia wrote: > > I suppose you could try setting it back and forth and getting a hexdump of nvram > > and then diff them to find the common thread. then write an app that does it > > for you. > > You mean, writing an app that can set it in Linux? Well, would be even > slicker, actually I was only thinking about some OF command like > 'setenv keyxxx yyy' to not have to fully boot into MacOS every time the > bootvars are reset. But a linux utility would really be quite useful, > unfortunately I've never played with OF settings from within Linux. > I'll have a look at your setpramboot docs, though. After writing this, i thought.. hmm. isn't that a lot more a 'trackpad' tap like thing, rather than a OF thing? If it is stored in nvram, its probably just read by a MacOS extention, which then sets the hardware. so its probably not as straight forward as I thought/made it out to seem. My bad. anyone know how this is actually done? I think a Linux app would be the ultimate solution. trackpad is a required tool for pb users IMO, and this could become another of those tools. -- Joseph P. Garcia jpgarcia@execpc.com jpgarcia@lidar.ssec.wisc.edu CS Undergraduate Student Employee - Systems Programmer University of Wisconsin - Madison UW Lidar Group ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/