MorphOS 3.2 on a Powerbook G4 - some issues

[commodorejohn]

So I nabbed myself an Aluminum Powerbook on the cheap (15" 1.25GHz, 1GB RAM) and figured I'd give MOS a shot since I was going to have to do a fresh install in any case (previous owner, this was not hardware well-suited for Leopard.) It installed nicely and runs fine, but I'm having a couple issues. The big problem is that it doesn't seem to believe that it has a touchpad, and thinks there's a mouse connected instead. This wouldn't be too much of a problem except that Powerbooks have no right button, and since it doesn't think it has a touchpad it won't use the provided touchpad workarounds, which means I'm having to rely on IControl's keyboard shortcut to bring up menus. Other issues are that the keyboard controls for things like brightness and volume don't work either, and Chrysalis loaded up a bunch of stupid crap in the title bar that I can't figure out how to get rid of, and installed an ugly icon pack that I'm not sure how to revert from.

Anybody got any advice on getting this stuff sorted out?

[commodorejohn]

Yes, right button works on a USB mouse. Kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop though.

Additional issue: it doesn't seem to go into sleep mode when I close the lid.

[commodorejohn]

Hmm...I thought I tried option-click, but I'll give it another shot.

[commodorejohn]

Well, I reformatted and installed MOS without Chrysalis (had to re-partition to set up an OSX install anyway.) Still no luck getting it to realize it's using a touchpad, but I got option-click working by simply adding a "hotkey" for it in the system settings.

[commodorejohn]

Huh. I'd like to know why they bothered to include a trackpad settings page if it's not going to use them... :|

[commodorejohn]

That doesn't really help much, when it's still burning battery from the CPU idling - and it's not a good situation heat-wise, either.

[commodorejohn]

The trackpad works fine in OSX, so I doubt it's a problem with the hardware. I'll ask around.

[commodorejohn]

I can do without 2-finger gestures now that I've got option-click working, but it'd really be nice for tap-click at least to work...

[commodorejohn]

I'll get to that. I do have other things to do on a weekend, you know ;P

P.S. posting from OWB!

[commodorejohn]

No, I didn't have any difficulties booting. If you are, there's a couple things I'd try. First off, boot into Open Firmware (hold down the Command/Apple key, O, and F while booting) and enter:

reset-nvram
reset-all

at the prompt to clear the NVRAM settings, then hold down C while it's rebooting. If it still won't boot from the CD, try booting into Open Firmware again and try:

boot cd:,\\tbxi

If that doesn't do it, I'd double-check that your CD image is good and burn a new copy.

[commodorejohn]

Have you tried opening the CD itself (and not the ISO file) in Finder? It should be able to read it if it burned correctly.