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OpenBSD / Upgrading To Faster Cf Card

« on: June 01, 2006, 06:47:46 am »

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So I cranked up the Zaurus speed to 520Mhz and repeated the test..

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How did you this? Is overclocking the Zaurus a good idea?

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OpenBSD / Upgrading To Faster Cf Card

« on: June 01, 2006, 02:43:52 am »

Well, no. There is not a magic limit of 4 hours uptime as I suspected yesterday late in the night :-) In fact, the last test I did gave me 6 hours! (Again almost exact, oh well). The difference with the last one was that the wifi card was not connected.

So that's what I did: I installed a crontab like this one in my user account:

* * * * * (/bin/date; /usr/bin/apm) >> /home/fquindos/up.txt

Then, with the yellow led off, I disconected the power supply and closed the lid. This morning the unit was off (surprise). Clicking the power button the green led went on for about a minute, but nothing appeared on the display. Not possible to start the unit without power supply. Examining the up.txt log file I found:

Battery state high, 100% remaining from May 31 22:57 to Jun 1 01:30.
Battery state high, 95% remaining at Jun 1 01:31.
Battery state high, 91% remaining from Jun 1 01:32 to Jun 1 01:36.
Battery state high, 100% remaining from Jun 1 01:37 to Jun 1 01:45. (Really).
Battery state high, 95% remaining from Jun 1 01:46 to Jun 1 01:48.
Battery state high, 100% remaining at Jun 1 01:49.
Battery state high, 95% remaining from Jun 1 01:50 to Jun 1 01:55.
Battery state high, 91% remaining at Jun 1 01:56.
Battery state high, 95% remaining from Jun 1 01:57 to Jun 1 01:59.
Battery state high, 91% remaining at Jun 1 02:00.
Battery state high, 95% remaining from Jun 1 02:01 to Jun 1 02:02.
Battery state high, 91% remaining from Jun 1 02:03 to Jun 1 04:51.
Battery state high, 87% remaining at Jun 1 04:52.
Battery state high, 83% remaining at Jun 1 04:53.
Battery state high, 75% remaining from Jun 1 04:54 to Jun 1 04:56.
Battery state high, 50% remaining from Jun 1 04:57 to Jun 1 04:59.
Battery state charging, 91% remaining at May 31 22:54. (Wait, I have to adjust date :-)).

iamasmith, do you test with a network card?

Really strange. Always 4 hours exactly. I'm testing battery life in my 3200 this time with no CF card attached. I'm wondering if the battery is really empty and is not possible to start the unit without powering it. Or if after powering the unit just enough to start it, battery runs for hours (4 again?). This smells to "feature" :-)
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OpenBSD / Upgrading To Faster Cf Card

« on: May 31, 2006, 05:13:31 pm »

Really strange. Always 4 hours exactly. I'm testing battery life in my 3200 this time with no CF card attached. I'm wondering if the battery is really empty and is not possible to start the unit without powering it. Or if after powering the unit just enough to start it, battery runs for hours (4 again?). This smells to "feature" :-)

Full results are now posted above... interestingly whilst idling (disk runs constantly) on OpenBSD the battery life is almost exactly the same with this card.

-Andy
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OpenBSD / Upgrading To Faster Cf Card

« on: May 29, 2006, 05:29:15 pm »

I'm very interested in your findings. I've just measured my 3200 battery life today, and got the same results: 4 h. uptime (9:29 - 13:29) with the lid closed and the wifi card connected. I used a cron job to log the apm status each minute. Apm showed a 100% for an hour, 95% for five minutes and 91% the rest of the time :-)

Have you measured charging time? For me, it takes many hours (12, maybe, I'm not sure) to get the yellow led off. I charge with OpenBSD running. I'm wondering if this could also improve with a flash card instead of a microdrive.

In the eagerness that I have experienced whilst waiting for the new card (possibly Tuesday this week) I have started to benchmark the existing configuration and I will compare this against the new card when I have it/fit it.

here are the results with the Microdrive...

   ... a few lines ...

-Andy
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OpenBSD / Suspend Crashes

« on: May 26, 2006, 11:56:01 am »

Yes, apm charge not 100% means the battery is almost empty  

I get more than 3 h, and that would be good enough if I could suspend.
But I can't. I need to shutdown because it is faster to restart with clean
filesystems. I was wondering what could be different between my setup,
that crashes always on suspend, and the setup of some of you, that only
crashes from time to time.

Any idea?

Yes, I see that, too.  Apm almost always tells me it's 100% charge.  I've had the Zaurus  off the charger for as long as an hour and apm tells me it's 90%  I guess I get kickin' battery life.
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right...except that it will take an hour go from from 100% to 90% and then 10 minutes to go from 75% to 0%  
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OpenBSD / Suspend Crashes

« on: May 20, 2006, 03:20:15 pm »

Hello. I have consistent crashes when suspending for more than a few minutes. It doesn't matter if I click the power button, use "apm -S", "zzz" or close the lid with lidsuspend=1. Pressing the power button after it has been suspended for a short while works, but I get console messages saying, for example

wd0e: aborted command writing fsbn 5248 of 5248-5251 (wd0 bn 1562608; cn ...
wd0: soft error (corrected)

However, if I let the Zaurus sleep for 15 - 30 minutes, after pressing the power button the disk drive (green led) comes up, but the display remains black and the keyboard doesn't work. I need to do a reset.

Does anyone have any suggestion? Does it work for you?

By the way, I have a 3200 and an OpenBSD 3.9 snapshot. It also happened with 3.9-release and a prerelease snapshot.

Thank you,
Francisco

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OpenBSD / Which Window Manager & Browser (obsd) Zaurus

« on: May 10, 2006, 09:09:28 pm »

Well, I'm using wmii, and I'm interested. If you can post it, or email it to me, I would appreciate.

Thank you :-)

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If anyone happens to like wmii, I have a patch you'll probably want.  The default mouse functionality doesn't work right on the Zaurus because the Z uses modifier keys to simulate button 2 and 3 clicks.

I made a few changes to how the mouse works so you can move and resize floating windows.  If anyone want's it, ask. (I'd post the patch but wmii has some pretty rapid development right now and by the time anyone sees this it'll probaly be several versions later.  And I don't expect a lot of people to be into this wm).
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