The infrared remote control (actually it might work via 'xev' and a window manager like fluxbox).

Should work in a near future - it is supported by DragonflyBSD and OpenBSD.

Internal Broadcom BCM43xx 802.11b/g interface (found in some models).

Apple iSight Camera (Should work in 5.0 and -current post Nov 1.

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IEEE1394 interface (shows up, but I've never used it).

Touchpad (but no synaptic extensions, so it sucks).

NVIDIA GeForce graphics (with resent Xorg).

i810 Graphics (Intel 945GM chip) and the LCD panel (with some help from the '915resolution' application).

Core2Duo processor (it still crashes, but the amd64 much less often than the i386 port).

What works and what doesn't Known to work

Do not try to use XFree86 - it will probably fail.

For recent versions of current, try setting X11FLAVOUR=Xorg and X11_TYPE=modular in /etc/mk.conf to get both native and package (modular) Xorg. UPDATE: this maybe fixed in pkgsrc-2008Q4 so maybe you can just set 'X11_TYPE=modular' in /etc/mk.conf and compile all the meta xorg packages from pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/xorg-*.

Do not just compile the meta package for xorg without first setting your options in such a way that you'll get the i810 server installed properly or you'll waste a bunch of time recompiling later.

(UFS2 + log should work on 5.0 and -current). Stick with UFS1 + softdep at least until 4.0 comes out. Your machine will panic until your remove the LFS venom from it's veins.

Do not try using LFS on a partition that has even a moderate amount of I/O going on it.

You'll either end up reloading OS X from scratch or trying to recover with a lot of black magic on the EFI shell. Otherwise you could wipe out the rEFIt loader along with any way to boot the machine. Answer 'NO' to that question during installation.

Do not install the NetBSD bootselect code when you are doing the installation.

The drivers are too old for this machine and you'll be lucky to get through the installation before it crashes.

Do not try installing the amd64 port for the 3.1 release.

Most of what has been tried in this howto was done using the amd64 release 4.0. It'll install, but the minute you put any kind of load on the machine (like compiling stuff from pkgsrc) the machine will die with a kernel panic.

Do not try using i386 NetBSD before 4.0.

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