Re: SL-6000 support (New install of OZ 3.5.4 on SL5500, where is qpe-base 1.5?)

Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia piątek, 20 października 2006 21:34, Michael Rozdoba napisał:
> 
>> My main pda is/was an SL6000. There were too many bugs for my needs
>>  to make OZ/Opie usable last I tried. I'm hoping this has changed 
>> with the 2.6 kernel which I'll test again soon.
> 
> I have sl-6600 which run OZ 3.5.4.2-rc2 here.
> 
>> FWIW In the past the suspend/resume issues,
> 
> 2.6 has fast suspend/resume which does not have problems.

That will be fantastic :)

> OK, usb-host driver need to be unloaded on suspend and loaded on 
> resume but this is automatic in OZ 3.5.4.2-rc2.

Cool.

>> failure for alarms to wake the unit from sleep
> 
> Just tested in GPE (which I have on unit) and it wake up properly.

This would be good enough for me, though I shall be cautious as in the
past it has been reported fixed & I've then found with my usage patterns
(during testing at least) it still exists in some form. I'll probably
give first Opie (for comparison with my last experiences) & then GPE a
go either when I get some spare time or when the next official release
of OZ occurs.

>> the annoying screen rendering problem were not acceptable to me.
> 
> That one was not fixed yet..

Do you recall a post to one of these lists, perhaps around 6 to 12
months ago, when someone gave a link to a non-OZ forum thread somewhere
discussing this issue on the SL6000, claiming to have a kernel patch to
fix it?

Unfortunately I can't recall the details, though I don't recall ever
seeing a follow-up on these lists, hence didn't get too excited.

This bug seems to get a mention roughly ever six months or so - I think
more recently someone mentioned their suspicions as to the cause and
that they'd look into it further when they had time.

>> I know. I gave up when there was no sign of SL6000 support 
>> improving quickly.
> 
> I got Tosa some time ago (it is one of OpenEmbedded project devices)

I noticed that :)

> and after spending some time with 2.4 kernel I decided that 
> OpenZaurus will not support it in any newer releases then 3.5.4 - 2.6
>  kernel is work in progress but behave much better then 2.4 ever was.
> 
Great news.

>> At least with Tosa being VGA, GPE should offer a good solution, if 
>> bugs are tolerable now. Alarms failing from sleep were a killer for
>>  me & even the cosmetic only redraw bug specific to Tosa was 
>> sufficiently annoying I don't think I could put up with it - but 
>> cosmetic stuff bugs me (I like pretty & clean UIs).
> 
> So now only redrawing left.

Thanks for the update on the current state of OZ on Tosa & of course for
all the work behind that :)

-- 
Michael
m r o z a t u k g a t e w a y d o t n e t

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