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« Reply #210 on: April 22, 2007, 10:32:15 pm »
well a quick load of the module and i get an error saying its not in the corect format

thanks for playing try againg next time

anyway it disagrees on symbol struct_module, i am assuming its because i am running somthing latter than what the module expects

if they have a binary perhaps they have more. will get an email message formatted and ready to go. if there is anyone who speaks japanese who wonts to proof read it and make sure its easy to translate then feel free to post
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« Reply #211 on: April 23, 2007, 03:06:20 am »
I'll proofread it for ya.
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« Reply #212 on: April 23, 2007, 04:43:10 am »
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also it gave me some clues as to how to set the VGA out port to the desired resoultion, i may need to get in touch with somene still running windows to run a test or two for me
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« Reply #213 on: April 23, 2007, 04:47:58 am »
BTW, the rumored touchscreen version does exist after all.

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« Reply #214 on: April 23, 2007, 05:43:49 am »
Could you elaborate on that, fpp?
(EDIT: Full specs (courtesy of conics.net) HERE. Costs about 902$, whilst the non-touchscreen models cost about $769.)

Anyways, what's the general consensus on this one? Is it good, or more importantly, is it worth the money?

I'm pretty sure that it has enough horsepower to handle general tasks (office & internet), but what about multimedia? How's the 3D performance (I'm not talking about anything recent, but more like Quake 1 or something like that.)?

It seems like a good device, but I've seen similar devices that are much more powerful (though more expensive, quite obviously) from Fujitsu, and some UMPCs, that are quite similar (but keyboardless).
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« Reply #215 on: April 23, 2007, 02:19:09 pm »
All the info you need, pros & cons, lies in the 15+ pages of this very thread, and on Kopsis' blog. Sorry for being too lazy to sum up... plus, I own one, so I'm biased :-)

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« Reply #216 on: April 23, 2007, 04:16:05 pm »
While I'm semi-tempted by the new touchscreen Kohjinsha...

But then started thinking that by the time that you get it with 1GB RAM and 100GB HD, you've now spent about the same ($1000 +/-) as what a new or refurbed Fujitsu P1610 is going for on eBay...

Granted the P1610 is slightly larger (about 1/2" wider and 1/4" deeper...) but, it has better specs and probably better build quality, right??

Of course, then I start thinking about the new Fujitsu 'McCaslin' mini-TabletPC that Intel just showed as part of their presentation.....

 

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« Reply #217 on: April 24, 2007, 01:04:06 am »
that annoyed me when i heard the anounment, but thats what i get

anyway it plays quake 2 at native rez just fine without slowdown, you might even be able to shoe horn quake 3 on there with the graphigs turned down (i had everything enabled for quake 2, but with a hacked autoconf file)

youtube plays fine if you turn the quality to low, sits at 90% when playing
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« Reply #218 on: April 24, 2007, 08:28:33 am »
the windows tests are simple, basically i didnt leave windows on there for long and never played with the monitor

what i need to know is if you want a higher rez on the monitor output does that also put that same rez on the screen (ie if you wanted 1280x1024, is that the same rez bieng pumped out by the monitor and the lcd screen)

i assume thats the case and that you cant change them independentlly, i might point out that under linux at the moment i have the lcd at 800x600 and the VGA out  downscaling the 800x600 lcd output to 640x480 (it looks bad but its ok for some things)

i am assuming at this point in time that the "video for linux" part that isnt mainline yet controls the scaling eigine. email msgs from AMD indicate that they were not concontrating on this feature or would leave it till last so its inclusion on the kohjinsha website leads me to belive that it is controlled thrugh that interface rather than presenting a second monitor output (which it cant do and would be ugly in x.org as the second one couldnt display anything)

one advantage is that the rez could be changed easily (output, not the display) althogh xrandr handels that well these days


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We are a group of mobile computing enthusiast who use or mainly run linux on our devices such as the zaurus by sharp.

we noticed on your website patches for the 2.6 linux kernel for driver support of the hardware on the device. however we noticed that you provide a binary driver for the widcomm wifi chipset.

We have tried loading the module however there was not enough infomation provided to tell us which kernel it is compatibel with. after looking around online we could not find the source code to this device so that we could use the device. having the source code would be the ideal solution as we would not have to worry about the diffrent kernel virsions and which ones are compatible

we humbely ask you for accsess to the source code so that we may use wifi under linux

thank you for listining and taking our requests into consideration

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i tried to approach them in the manner i believe the are accustomed to, i am not sure if i hit the nail on the head with that one but i feel i was close, anyone good with the culture with emphasis on business deals? i think thats the aproch to take but my experince only comes from watching one to many anime (for refrence i hae gone for fudeal japan in the way i talk to them. ie talking to someone who is of higher class)

tell me if i am crazy. thats just what i think and i like to pretend i understand psychology... and spelling  

i dont want to force the GPL postion in the opening rounds, i dont think that is  a good way to aproch it and i am not sure about the leaglease stuff in this case, you know how the wifi companies are. i belive in this case if they felt "threatened" by the GPL they would mearly pull the drivers. i will make an offsite backup before posting of the drivers in case they pull them and we latter need the drivers

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« Reply #219 on: April 24, 2007, 09:06:11 am »
Hi Da Blitz,

I think you are approaching them correctly. Just a bit of spell checker would certainly improve your email ;-)
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« Reply #220 on: April 25, 2007, 12:23:01 am »
thanks, i thought i was going over the top.

should go to firefox 2 like i have on the kohjinsha as it has that nice spell check feature

will wait a day or two then send it off in case someone wants to comment on it
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« Reply #221 on: April 25, 2007, 01:45:09 am »
Do you need it translated or are you gonna send it in English?
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« Reply #222 on: April 25, 2007, 08:36:22 am »
not sure, i suppose translated is best but i didnt think anyone would offer (if you are willing !!)
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« Reply #223 on: April 25, 2007, 10:13:48 am »
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not sure, i suppose translated is best but i didnt think anyone would offer (if you are willing !!)
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« Reply #224 on: April 27, 2007, 04:39:33 am »
well i did a bit more searching and found a link to someone fiddling with ndis wrapper (i belive its in french)

http://www.andesi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=51281

i got the basics and it looks like he is using a kohjinsha (i searched for te serial number and the chip identifies itself tha same way, considering the lack of info i would say its only used in this product)

says ho wolud get back to them then nothing, oh well

guess its onto the email message
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