bloodline wrote:
Does AROS use ACPI for any of that?
Nope, but it would be nice it it did...
Hum, ah well, currently fiddling with DragonFly on a board with a specifically bugged ... whew, whatever it is, the code you compile to tell it how to present one of the tables involved.
I had similar mouse and keyboard issues with QNX6 on certain 486en back when I was trying to get into it, where you'd expect it all to work, and for some reason it doesn't.
[Hm, there's an idea, you guys fit on a floppy... How much hardware detection actually goes on right now? Would it be possible to cut an image that loads, say, a memory resident version from a FAT floppy, and blows some rough equivalent of a dmesg/detected device tree back into a text file on the FAT-formatted disk? Might be convenient for newbies and weird troubles?]