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Sharp ROMs / 4 sharp rom kernels to choose from

« on: February 04, 2004, 10:54:39 pm »

There are two main possibilities.  Preemptive and preemptive with overclocking.  Each of these has had a patch uploaded to correct some wireless stuff.  So, go for the most recent of either one depending upon wheter you want to try the overclocking boost.

I believe the first two are just two versions of the pre-emptive standard, meaning no overclocking, and the second two are versions of the special, which includes the anti-patch-patch, and overclocking.  

I\'ve tried both the pre-emptive (v1.2) and the special (v1.1.), but can\'t tell the difference.  I mean they both are faster than the defaul kernel (or non pre-emptive), but clock speed remains the same in /proc/cpuinfo from pre-emptive standard and the special.  Am I missing something or is that expected?

File sizes _are_ slightly different between the two.

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General Discussion / Recent 5600s have PXA255 processor?

« on: February 01, 2004, 04:43:38 pm »

So, for us noobs, what\'s this bug with the 250\'s and how to avoid it?

Read my previous, previous post in this thread

Yeah oops, I re-read that after I posted.   :oops:

-dork

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General Discussion / sl-5600 cant boot after opie packages

« on: January 31, 2004, 10:58:44 pm »

My bad... OZ is available for the 5600 (it might not usable yet)

http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.3.5/SL5600/

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General Discussion / sl-5600 cant boot after opie packages

« on: January 31, 2004, 10:44:26 pm »

Basically I think you need OpenZaurus, not Qtopia (which comes from Sharp), and there isn\'t a version of OZ for the 5600 yet.

I\'m a noob and could be wrong, but I believe Opie is the OZ gui, Qtopia is the Sharp gui.

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General Discussion / Recent 5600s have PXA255 processor?

« on: January 31, 2004, 03:27:17 pm »

Hey All,

So I just bought a 5600 from Amazon last week and it has the pxa250 processor, it says on the box and in /proc/cpuinfo..  This thing rocks though!

Previously I had an ipaq 5455 which was garbage. I bought it for wireless networking and soon realized it was woefully inadequate.  The Z is way faster than the ipaq, the browser most notably.  I know it\'s apples to oranges, but the Z just feels quicker, and probably is.

I\'ve been using the thing all week for kismet wifi sniffing, games, web surfing, and email and I haven\'t had any problems or even one crash.  Updated to the 1.32 Sharp ROM also.

So, for us noobs, what\'s this bug with the 250\'s and how to avoid it?