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by leonhong
Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:47 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: PS3 Linux Partition Clone/Restore
Replies: 21
Views: 14109

Dear keepkool: I met your problem many times before I decide to hang on Ubuntu. Yes, the otheros.bld is os-specific. Theoretically, it is a small kernel loaded inside the PS3 system area and will be booted by the Hypervisor, then it switches to its system booting area that resides on the linux parti...
by leonhong
Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:00 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: PS3 Linux Partition Clone/Restore
Replies: 21
Views: 14109

Re: PS3 Linux Partition Clone/Restore

Dear keepkool: To clone a partition was not that difficult. I had done it many times, including cloning my whole partition to another PS3 and boot it successfully. Here is my way: 1. Prepare a Live CD of your system. My system is Gutsy, so I used Gutsy Live CD. 2. Prepare a USB disk, better be large...
by leonhong
Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:14 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: SPU compilation stand-alone program troubles
Replies: 6
Views: 4990

Re: SPU compilation stand-alone program troubles

Dear exbutterfly: According to the IBM guidelines, all spe programs must be spawned by ppe kernel threads. Many preparations (locate spe, loading text and data to LS, start execution, arrange communications, stop execution, etc) should be done before you can use the spe. If you are trying to code st...
by leonhong
Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:04 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: PS3RSX Binary driver support
Replies: 117
Views: 202557

Dear Akta77: Thanks for the update again. I had bought another 40GB model to upgrade FW and play DMC4. The 60 GB model have replaced my PC now. As you know, too many trojan, virus and worms made the Intel family computers very dangerous to surf the web. My credit card was once hacked on the internet...
by leonhong
Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:40 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: PS3RSX Binary driver support
Replies: 117
Views: 202557

Dear Akta77:

The kernel 2.6.22 rev 52 was released for about 1 month, but there is no further update of ps3rsxdriver for this rev presently. Can you update the ps3rsx driver for rev 52?

Regards
by leonhong
Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:54 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: Linux performance & distros
Replies: 10
Views: 8069

Re: Linux performance & distros

In my tests PS3 has no problem attaining the hard drive's maximum transfer rate. Dear jimparis: How to test the drive performance really get my attention. Do you have a tool to do this? Because I don't have such kind of tools, I use Ubuntu Live CD + partimage backup time to estimate its performance...
by leonhong
Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:21 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: Linux performance & distros
Replies: 10
Views: 8069

Re: Linux performance & distros

Hello everyone! :) : : : 1)Which distros and which environment do You use? 2)How does Your system perform? 3)Feel free to discuss related staff :) : : 1) Ubuntu+PS3RSX1.04 2) Slower in loading, but quite acceptable when running 3) The south bridge of PS3 is a SONY made CXD2973GB, which won't exceed...
by leonhong
Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:46 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: PS3RSX Binary driver support
Replies: 117
Views: 202557

Re: Update

Akta77 wrote:ps3rsx module updated to 1.0-4 for kernel 2.6.22 rev 51.

Regards,

Akta
Many thanks Akta, very good efficiency !!
by leonhong
Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:39 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: PS3RSX Binary driver support
Replies: 117
Views: 202557

Dear Nodnol212: It's a file w/o permission problem!! you may try the following codes in a console to change the content of your xorg.conf sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf Press "i" to insert words, then press "ESC" to return to its command mode and type ":wq" to save the fil...
by leonhong
Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:28 pm
Forum: PS3 Linux Development
Topic: PS3RSX Binary driver support
Replies: 117
Views: 202557

Re: PS3RSX Binary driver support

Dear Akta77: Thanks for the great jobs!! I have just upgraded my ps3rsx from 1.0-1 to 1.0-3 on my Gutsy, it works great!! Yet the broken lines on the menu bar persist, and these invisible lines also flicker on the Firefox menu. Is it possible to remove these annoying defects in the future? I am usin...