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Originally Posted by There0
Been running Openbsd on this laptop for about 6 months (upgraded to 4GB OcZ RAM and to 60GB OCZ SSD) now, only problem i had was that i had to disable acpitz in the kernel, i use apmd -A just great on amd64 build.
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The 4.5 release will have several ACPI related changes, hopefully that won't be required.
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Originally Posted by There0
My fingerscanner is supported but i havent found any software to manage it yet (suggestions plz).
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All USB devices are supported...
ugen(4) will always attach if no other driver claims the device,
ugen(4) being the USB generic device, programs utilizing
devel/libusb are essentially substitute drivers.
See
http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page, manual porting is required though..
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Originally Posted by There0
Also can't seem to get the OS to see more than 3GB of ram.
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This is a common compliant, OpenBSD doesn't support PXE.
Just imagine the x86 has a 32-bit address space.. physical and virtual..
2^32 is 4294967296 bytes, or 4GB.
If you install 4GB of memory you expect to have 4GB detected, unfortunately.. memory isn't the only thing that's mapped into physical address space, legacy I/O.. PCI devices.. AGP aperture.. all these things have priority over the real estate.
In reality, the modern x86 computers has a much larger physical address space.. 36-bit.. 48-bit.. but in the end the architecture is still fundamentally 32-bit, 32-bit register sizes.. 32-bit immediate operands.. etc.. So when you install 4GB of memory only a portion of that is mapped below 32-bit physical, the remainder is mapped above that.
Understanding the architecture you decide to use will make the experience much grater in the long run, I won't go into the details of paging or PXE.. but the overall point I'm trying to make is that OpenBSD properly detects what the BIOS has indicated available.