Re: Mobile Pro 880 Successes with 4.0

[jscottkasten%yahoo.com@localhost]

Awesome...more toys...  :-)

Glad to see someone is working with the latest pkgsrc.  I'm kind of waiting for 
5.0 to come out and make a clean sweep of things.

My own choice of window manager is WindowMaker.  I typically have about 3 or 4 
xterms open, and about 5 doc apps going (clock, weather, audio mixer, etc).  I 
do have swap enabled on the CF.  There's lots of little things that add up to 
make a big difference in performance such as turning off atime on the mount, 
softdeps, and so forth.

I do see some significant lag when starting some apps, but when things settle 
down, it generally runs ok.

I'm curious how you do your builds.  I've had good luck using GXEMUL on some 
beastly desktop to brute force "native" builds for everything.

Regards,

-S-


--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Ben Hodgens <ben%hodgens.net@localhost> wrote:


> Funny you should mention this today, as I just made a
> tarball of the pkgsrc 'packages' dir I made on/for
> my MobilePro 780 (essentially the same machine as the 880)
> available yesterday:
> 
> http://benjamin.hodgens.net/files/packages-netbsd-4.0mipsel.2008.10.tgz
> 
> There aren't nearly as many packages available as you
> built, but as the file name suggests, they're from
> 2008/10's 'current' pkgsrc. Here's a partial
> list:
> 
> epic4-2.2nb1
> jed 0.99
> mutt 1.4.2.3nb2
> ncurses 5.6nb2
> ncursesw 5.6nb2
> lua 5.1.4
> luafilesystem 1.4.1
> antiword 0.37nb1
> flwm 1.02
> ion 20040729nb6
> matchbox-wm 1.1
> x11-links 0.39
> matchbox-panel 0.9.2nb3
> matchbox-themes-extra 0.3nb1
> matchbox-wm 1.1
> matchbox-desktop 0.9.1nb3
> 
> In my limited experience, this device simply doesn't
> have enough RAM to function   with NetBSD 4.0, even with
> very minimalist non-console tools (X, ion, 3 xterms). There
> might be some pruning of the running processes, but even
> with pretty much everything "off" it's still
> bumping up against the ceiling of the 32Mb. Though I did
> determine that ion is a wonderful window manager for a small
> touchscreen such as the 780 has!
> 
> Regards,
> Ben
>