Comment by 🦁 Kaze
Re: "Has anyone ever gotten a proper OpenBSD handheld cyberdeck…"
I really like your idea! Maybe some GPD hardware? SInce it's regular x86, it should "just work"
Feb 18 · 3 months ago
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🥦 EatYourFuckingBroccoli [OP] · Feb 19 at 01:37:
Yeah, I've been looking at those lately...I might consider a such a solution
👻 darkghost · Feb 19 at 12:46:
My experience with GPD has been a mixture of awe and disappointment. I had the Pocket 2. The keyboard never worked well from go. I had the microPC. I loved that thing. Even though the left mouse button broke off. But the thing that killed it was the screen tensioner snapping off the screen.
Neither of these devices could boot stock Linux and I had to find a special distro that was just Ubuntu with a custom kennel. Everything worked after that but the custom kernel devs gave up and stranded the device on updates. (they were broken by then) They also use tablet screens meaning the default orientation is 90° but that should be easy to fix.
SteamDeck works OK, wireless is NoOP but everything else works fine. You would need to jury-rig a USB hub with tape or somthing to the SteamDeck, you could then use urtwn dongle for wireless and maybe card reader for more storage. The SteamDeck case is not designed to be opened, there are multiple plastic tabs. GPD and OpenBSD don't mix, their firmware is strange, My GPD Pocket with atom CPU will not boot OpenBSD after installation.
🥦 EatYourFuckingBroccoli [OP] · Mar 11 at 19:54:
I actually just bought a GPD MicroPC 2 and so far everything is working well except for suspend, but apparently a BIOS upgrade fixes S3 suspension modes for Linux. I can't find any documentation that specifically claims that it fixes this problem for OpenBSD as well but I'm going to try it anyway and hope that it works. Otherwise, so far so good! 👍
🥦 EatYourFuckingBroccoli [OP] · Mar 11 at 19:56:
Hibernation works in the meantime until I can (hopefully) fix S3.
Original Post
Has anyone ever gotten a proper OpenBSD handheld cyberdeck to work? I'm looking at ditching conventional smart phones for a feature phone+cyberdeck combo. Linux has more of an advantage for this type of application but I'm stubborn and want something that I can't have. Anyone have ideas?