alt.hn

6/28/2026 at 4:58:59 PM

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

 http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html

by zdw

6/28/2026 at 9:21:54 PM

I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base.

the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2.

Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an ARM VM and discovered it had a "VGA-compatible" GPU emulating an old ISA-class chip.

by userbinator

6/28/2026 at 6:52:47 PM

The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed out, GTK has a rather sizeable number of dependencies; building the framebuffer frontend instead would save a lot of time.

by bentley

6/28/2026 at 7:15:16 PM

(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.

by classichasclass

6/28/2026 at 7:25:19 PM

/usr/ports/www/netsurf/netsurf-fb/

by bentley

6/28/2026 at 8:20:58 PM

Thanks, I'll try that.

by classichasclass

6/28/2026 at 8:22:07 PM

Mainline Dillo runs faster and smoother, it's just an fltk + git clone && configure +make install away.

by anthk

6/28/2026 at 5:54:54 PM

The wsconscfg problem with multiple screens, whatever it exactly is, is decidedly odd. According to this, the display is being driven as smfb0 in what is largely a dumb framebuffer mode, no acceleration, no GPU, no fancy high jinks whatsoever. wscons/wsdisplay should have no difficulty with multiple screens on that sort of thing.

by JdeBP

6/28/2026 at 6:40:04 PM

No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.

by anthk

6/28/2026 at 8:05:44 PM

Acer aspire one with NetBSD

by iberator

6/28/2026 at 7:25:17 PM

It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?

by shrubble

6/28/2026 at 5:27:52 PM

I still think it is very cursed to see that image of RMS using that laptop despite I was shocked to see it 12 years ago. Still shocks me to this day.

by stevefan1999

6/28/2026 at 5:39:01 PM

what is shocking about it?

by em-bee

6/28/2026 at 6:50:03 PM

I think because it's RMS champion of digital openess using using an archaine Chinese laptop, it's the dichotomy of China providing a product that's essentially more free (of binary blob firmware) then a western equivalent laptop. Take heed and dispare oh ye providers of win modems!

by sellmesoap