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Debian / Debian Eabi Power Issues

« on: August 03, 2008, 04:25:01 pm »

What sort of battery times are we talking about ?

It seemed like I only got about 45 mins or so in console.
I did do a full apt-get update though over wifi.

I expect the whole thing is an error on my part, but over the weekend (im new to debian on z) ill do a lot more testing and hopefully confirm that its just an illusion!

Well, installing updates over wifi - microdrive spinning all the time + wifi active + backlight set above average (by default, before decreasing it in X) would suck the battery quite fast. 45 minutes seems extremely short, though. I normally get 3+ hours with backlight set to minimum, no wifi, but quite intensive tasks such as playing games in emus, multimedia etc. (my battery is more than a year old).

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Debian / Snes9x

« on: July 31, 2008, 07:42:17 am »

Great, thanks a lot. I thought there has to be a better solution :-)

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Debian / Debian Eabi Power Issues

« on: July 30, 2008, 03:21:38 pm »

btw I run from microdrive, too.

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Debian / Debian Eabi Power Issues

« on: July 30, 2008, 03:12:34 pm »

I use yonggun's Andromeda Debian package on C3000 and haven't noticed any such issues. I would say the battery life is comparable to Cacko or pdaXrom.

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Debian / Snes9x

« on: July 30, 2008, 03:08:18 pm »

I don't think there is any Snes emu for armel in debian feeds, but I found this website - http://pupnik.de/snes9x.html with a snes9x binary compiled for Nokia N770/800, which works on my C3000 with Andromeda/yonggun. Quite playable in a small window without sound - I tried Chronotrigger and Actraiser; when scaled to 2x window it's pretty slow, but with some frameskipping can be considered playable for non-action games. I've also tried Super Mario World - works too, Super Metroid only shows Nintendo logo, FF3/6 only shows some strange graphical artifacts.
Maybe this can make a few people happy, sorry if this is old news.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13 Speed On C3000

« on: July 26, 2008, 06:10:53 am »

Hi,
I'm new to pdaXrom/pdaXii13 (v2). I recently installed it (5.4.9 upgraded to 5.5 alpha5) on my C3000 in place of Cacko 1.23 beta1. Now I understand that a full X environment is much more resource intensive and demanding than QTopia based ROM and I was therefore expecting somewhat lower performance from my Z. I was pleasantly surprised - the performance when playing video or games/emus seems on par with Cacko (or even higher, but I guess that's mostly thanks to newer/better optimized packages - dosbox etc.).
What I don't get is why apps take so awfully long to load - even simple system settings such as Date & Time, Light & Power take 10-15 seconds to show up.
Another issue I encountered - is it normal for the Z to take 10+ seconds when waking up from suspend?
I know this ROM runs completelly off the microdrive, but still... would swapping it for CF make a huge difference?
I use the default partitioning scheme recommended by Meanie - 1.5GB system, 256MB swap, the rest for data.
Thanks for bearing with my noobish questions