Flurry of Zaurus Improvements

Contributed by jolan on 2005-12-20 from the return-of-the-bumpasaurus dept.

There's been a lot of notable improvements to the Zaurus port lately:

uwe@ has committed a workaround for an issue where some CF cards would cause the screen to turn completely white thus rendering it unusable. Don't fret, in good OpenBSD form uwe@ is still working on fixing the issue in the right way.
drahn@ has gotten 91 MHz hw.setperf mode to work properly.
And last but not least, Theo has made the resume code restore the running speed to the correct value as well as fixing a race that occurred when closing the lid while suspending.

Now if only Sharp would come out with a newer model that has a 6GB hard drive so debug libraries would fit.

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By Anonymous Coward (195.224.109.30) on 2005-12-20 10:02

It is great being a Zaurus owner, every snap there is notable improvements, and the community is really coming together. I wish the battery wasn't so hard to code for though.
By Anonymous Coward (66.11.66.41) on 2005-12-20 19:04

The debug libraries don't fit when what else is installed? The source tree? Ports too?
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1. By Anonymous Coward (195.224.109.30) on 2005-12-22 10:34
  
  I have source and ports installed on my Zaurus, but it does take up a lot of disk space.
  Having ports installed is quite essential as due to slow compilation times there are few packages available compared to other platforms. At least that was the case.
  I used to have ports installed as a mounted NFS share but it is much better having it local.
By tedu (69.12.168.114) on 2005-12-20 19:59

and now featuring overclocking via sysctl.
By Anonymous Coward (63.83.70.149) on 2005-12-21 17:14

One one of the Zaurus-linux boards, an individual did crack the case of his 3000 and replace the Hitachi CF Hard drive with a 4GB solid state drive to improve performance. Assuming this works, you should be able to replace the 4GB drive with one up to 12GB assuming you have the $$$. Pretec has 12GB CF cards at http://www.pretec.com/product/SSD/CF_Commercial/Cheetah80X.htm
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1. By djm@ (203.58.120.11) on 2005-12-22 05:56
  
  umm, the price on that is $9,999.99 from the Pretech website. ouch.
2. By Anonymous Coward (195.224.109.30) on 2005-12-22 10:31
  
  If you translate this site from Japanese, it shows someone replacing a SL-C3000 HD with a 5GB one
  http://www.ayati.com/kobako/c3kanso.htm

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