Ted_Elgar wrote:
Cute little laptop..
Yeah, I really like my Japanese laptop "Panasonic Let'snote J10" especially its keyboard

The key pitch of my laptop is 17-18mm which is smaller than the the industry standard (19mm).

As you see the picture above there are three extra keys beside the space bar:
US keyboard (us): [pointlessly long space bar (wtf?)]
Japanese (jp106): [Muhenkan] [space bar] [Henkan] [Kana]
And here's my xmodmap
Code:
!Swap CapsLock & Control_L
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
!Muhenkan as Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 102 = Alt_L Meta_L
!Henkan as Escape
keycode 100 = Escape
!Ctrl_R as Composition Key
keycode 105 = Multi_key
that makes the key map
[Muhenkan -> Alt] [space bar] [Henkan -> Esc][Kana]
and allows me to press [Alt] and [Esc] with my thumbs
effortlessly. I can't believe that most Vim users press [Esc] with a little finger... I am so lazy that I chose Peppermint
Dreamcast (Peppermint: No; Linux: ?; NetBSD: Yes)Ted_Elgar wrote:
I'm going to have to get my Dreamcast warmed up now..

Well, the straightforward answer is that
you can't run Peppermint on Dramcast whose CPU is called SuperH SH3el. Peppermint only supports x86 and AMD64 CPUs.[1] But perhaps
NetBSD can help.
Windows CEWhen I was in Japan I saw Japanese geeks installing Windows CE on their Dreamcast (and I found it hilarious) but it's not realistic to have Windows CE in 2014 for the very reason...
LinuxGentoo team has mentioned their Dramcast support in 2006[2] but I'm not positive if they still work on it.
NetBSDThe latest version of NetBSD (v6.1.2) still supports Dreamcast.[3][4]
Ted_Elgar wrote:
Is the bios in Japanese?
If so, you should send this to Sega

"How to become a hacker: If you don't have functional English, learn it." by Eric Raymond
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills4Anyway, feel free to ask me when you need to refer to Japanese documents

Cheers,
Culip
[1] "Download and Install". Peppermint.
http://peppermintos.com/guide/downloading/[2] Dahlskjaer, C. "Gentoo Linux 2006.1 Unleashed." Gentoo Foundation.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.1/2006.1-press-release.txt[3] "Platforms Supported by NetBSD". The NetBSD Foundation.
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/[4] "NetBSD Wiki/ports/ NetBSD/dreamcast". The NetBSD Foundation.
http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/dreamcast/To PCNetSpec:
Thanks for your comment and sorry for delay responding. I'm still investigating my speaker issue and will keep you updated.