RC5 Available...

[Laze]

Fixed Packages filename sorry :-) It wen't a little bit fast..

The "screen blanking" applet is in progress...

[Dr.HerbertWest]

Trying to format my sdcard to ext2 but I have run into a few problems first I noticed that the sdcard is no longer under /dev/mmcda1 it is under /dev/mmcd/disc0/part1

well I got the sdcard to umount but I can not get fdisk to read it at all anyone have any Ideas of what to do?

[gromituk]

Friends,

I would like very much if someone with knowledge can explain me what does vector floating point and virtual floating point means.

As usual, Google is your friend.  Try this for starters.

[stbrock]

The ARM manual has a section on floating point support. It appears that some ARM processors do have hardware floating point instruction support, though not the Zaurus processors. Older floating point emulation treated floating point instructions as unsupported operations which generated an exception which was then handled one way or another in software. The vector floating point support provides a software floating point library which can be specified as a compile option. Once programs are recompiled with the option, the software floating point routines are called directly, avoiding the exception process which was presumably a lot slower. I'm no expert, but I think that's what's going on.

Thanks to the pdaXrom folks for an enhancement most of us probably didn't know to ask for.

[offroadgeek]

Can we please try and keep this thread from being hundreds of pages long with several different bugs/issues in the same thread?

If someone finds a bug/issue, please create a new thread with the issue (obviously indicate rc5, etc.).

This will make the forums/threads easier to search down the road.

thanks!

[Laze]

I totally agree with offroadgeek - as you might have noticed i have joined the admin team.

But please try to report bugs in our bugsystem (yes i know its not perfect) - and make new threads if you discover new stuff or have specific new problems, etc.

Bug please consider bug reports carefully and test thoroughly before reporting them - make sure that the are real bugs and not just feature request like "i would like to see Half Life 2 etc."

Ps. We are working on getting Quake 2 running (when we get bored with regular bughunting)...

[Vanguard]

I just want to say thanks to the PDAXROM team.  You guys have been doing a great job of putting up with us whiny users and giving us an OS which is starting to reach the potential of the zaurus's excellent hardware.

Even though we've still got a ways to go, you've taken us a long long way, and I appreciate it.

Also, thanks to the ZUG for hosting these forums!

[iamasmith]

The bluetooth script in pcmcia seems to be lacking the hciconfig hci0 down; sleep 1 bits needed to stop certain bluetooth cards from locking up (Bluemonkey etc.)

[Zumi]

This new ROM is _a_w_e_s_o_m_e_!

I made a simple but correct test with sin,cos,tan functions in it. I tried it with 100.000 cycles in RC3, the Zaurus completed it in 5,6 sec. Now I recompiled this test program under RC5, but with 100 times more cycles (10.000.000) in it. And it was completed after 23.051 secs!
This means the new rom floating point part is about 25 times faster than it was before!

Woohoo!

Thank you for your good work, pdaXrom team! I can't stop clicking on the banners because of my happiness!

[Laze]

Zumi thanx for benchmarking :-) Btw. the best banner are the non-Zaurus, Windows software - like the ones under bug reporting, about us etc. ;-)

[iamasmith]

Just thought you would like to know, built your Quake version for SDL on Qtopia and got a whopping.... 3.5fps..... definitely PDAXROM is the way to go if you want Quake.

[omega]

Well done lads. RC5 is the first ever pdaxrom that i've ran, and i'm not going back! I love having ABIWORD and GNUMERIC... and they seem really fast.  

There is a slight shiver on the screen as it's being redrawn on the terminals, depending on the angle and what ambient light there is... Is that normal, but in any case it's not a problem!

[alan]

ho !! how right is omega !!!


Abiword IS REEEEEEEALY fast in this version !!! In previous versions, large files were very long to appear, and when you typed a long text you had to wait for abiword to finish for quite a long time..not anymore !!!

Same remark about xpdf ! At last i can read large docs without waiting for 20 seconds or so !

Everything is faster now, and batt life did not change, this is a miracle.

You know what ? French governement sells laptops for 1 euro a day for students... but forget about that : my zaurus is a wonderfull textprocessing tool, a beatifull mp3 player, a super game machine, and i can play around with it for MUCH more than the 3 or 4 ridiculous hours a laptop can stay on batt !

RC5 is definitely the best rom ever !!!!!!

Keep going on, guys, your job is ssooooooo good !!!

[Foxdie]

Now WHY couldn't you have released this RC when I still had my C760 huh Laze? tut tut tut

Glad to hear that pdaXrom is becoming increasingly popular. Keep up the good work.

[ScottYelich]

stuff linked to here:  http://www.pdaxrom.org/index.php?showid=40&menuid=11

mirrored here:  http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/cacko/pdaXrom/1.1.0/rc5/

Laze -- feel free to put stuff on spy...

The feed        http://mirror1.pdaxrom.org/rc5/feed/
is also here:   http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/cacko/pdaXrom/1.1.0/rc5/feed/


(also unstable) ..


copied as of the date of this post 12/OCT/2004 -- 1pm EST

Scott