Re: OZ instability/performance C3100

I've also noticed the random shutdowns and incredibly short battery
life with OZ 3.5.4.2-rc2 on my SL5600. Battery exhaustion is so fast,
even with the unit in suspend most of the time, that it's almost
unusable.

At least, it _thinks_ the battery is exhausted. I suppose it could
simply be misreading the state of the battery somehow? This is with a
brand new battery, mind you.




JP> On 1/11/07, Ger Apeldoorn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've recently installed OZ on my C-3100, which had the cacko ROM at the
>> time.
>>
>> I have several issues:
>> - When I turn my device on, it turns itself off again after 5-10
>> seconds. After a few attempts it will stay on.

JP> I've noticed this myself on my C3000. It doens't happen as often any
JP> more. I think it has to do with the number and length of power button
JP> presses. Since you're new to this your experiences with different
JP> lengths of presses would be good.

>> - It is incredibly slow compared to the cacko ROM.

JP> Slow? I've always seen OZ as faster than Sharp, expecially after the
JP> switch to softfloat. What exactly do you see as slow? The first boot
JP> will of course take a while as it's setting up lots of packages.
JP> Further boots will be much faster (if you even ned to reboot).

>> - Battery consumption is much higher.

JP> This is an interesting observation. What kind of difference are you
JP> seeing? Perhaps Richard Purdie (our kernel hacker) could comment on
JP> this.

>> - I cant seem to find a good audiobook player. (Had Kino2 on the cacko
>> rom, but that depends on some Sharp libraries the author told me) (Now,
>> I use XMMS, but the buttons are really small (uses only part of the
>> screen) and the power is turned off when i close the clamshell.)

JP> What format do you need to play? I use mpd for music playing myself
JP> with the ncmpc frontend. If you run GPE you can use gmpc or glurp as a
JP> frontend.

>> - Programs hang (the biggest problem is kopi, because i've lost
>> appointments)
>>

JP> I haven't used kopi in a while. How/when is it hanging? It *should* be
JP> working, as should everything else.

>> I really do love the much more current software on OZ and the larger
>> choice of software so any help is very much appreciated!!
>>

JP> Perhaps you should try gpe and see if it works better for you?




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