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Hi there, I recently adopted an orphaned Powerbook G4 so I thought I can make good use of it. I installed FreeBSD 11.0 on it. Kernel panic and reboot loop. Then I tried 10.1. It booted fine. But in both cases, the touchpad failed to initialize. ums0: <vendor 0x05ac product 0x1000, class 0/0...

I've just installed FreeBSD 10.3 on an Apple G5 (11,2 A1117/A1177 Late 2005 - M9590LL/A Dual core 2 GHz), using the "easy" install with guided partitioning and that went very smooth. Thanks to the devs for this port! I have a couple of minor issues, however. When I shut the computer off, with...

I installed 10.3 on an ancient G4 Mac Mini I happened to have sitting around, and it is doing very well. Only problem is that I am trying to use it as a router and it will not restart after a power failure. All my research has only brought up ways to set it to restart under Linux or OS X. Can...