yellowdog-newbie Digest

[Brian Holmes]

I installed YDL 6 a few weeks ago and in comparison to something like
xubuntu 7.04 the interface did seem a bit slow when loading
applications.  For example firefox and even configuration dialogs.
Other than that the install went smoothly and I did manage to get
wireless working although it was a bit frustrating at first.
Connecting to an Apple Airport running WEP I could not get an IP
address using dhcp.  I had to manually enter the IP info (IP, nm, gw,
dns...) and then everything worked.

At the moment I just have two concerns which would be awesome.  I
noticed in the source build there is an ntfs module along with many
other fs modules that don't get compiled by default.  Perhaps I just
missed that during install but is there an option for that somewhere
or shall I just compile it myself?  Secondly, the black borders on my
TV.  I understand that ps3-video-mode does a sort of overscan when
fullscreen mode is enabled and you lose some screen.  Whereas normal
mode gives you less than ideal (black borders).  I was reading about
using fbset and /etc/fb.modes to minimize this problem, is there any
insight into this someone can provide?



On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Bill Mueller
<bmueller at terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:
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>  Haven't noticed it here.  Can you provide more details?
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>  > Only thing is,...it's kindda slow,... any ideas why,guys?
>  >
>  > regards,
>  > Cornelius
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>  >>    2. Re: upgrade to 6.0 on a PS3 (chengx)
>  >>    3. RE: YDL 6 on ps3 help (Jason .)
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>  >> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:45:50 -0500
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>  >> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:36:50 -0700
>  >> From: chengx <chengx at ydl.net>
>  >> Subject: Re: upgrade to 6.0 on a PS3
>  >> To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users
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>  >> I'v asked the similar question before. I think the
>  >> short answer is that upgrading between major releases
>  >> (such as from 5.0.x to 6.0) is not a good idea and not
>  >> officially supported.
>  >>
>  >> BTW, you don't need to reformat the PS3 hard drive.
>  >> Simply install the 6.0 over the existing 5 version
>  >> partition (i.e. avoid the repartition step under gameos
>  >> and later choose clearing all existing linux partition when
>  >> installing 6.0).
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>  >> Hope this helps.
>  >> xun
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>  >> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 09:14:45 -0500, Ross Howe <rosshowe at mac.com> wrote:
>  >>> Hi,
>  >>>
>  >>> I plan to upgrade to version 6 on my PS3. I am concerned about the
>  >>> upgrade methodology. Namely do I need to repeat the entire procedure
>  >>> that I used to install version 5. My real concern is that I do not
>  >>> want to again reformat my PS3 hard drive since the back up and restore
>  >>> features of the native PS3 operating system did not seem to work well.
>  >>>
>  >>> If there is an installation (upgrade) procedure for an existing
>  >>> yellowdog partition on a PS3 please point me to that procedure.
>  >>>
>  >>> Ross Howe
>  >>> rosshowe at mac.com
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>  >> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:37:49 -0500
>  >> From: "Jason ." <giasone777 at hotmail.com>
>  >> Subject: RE: YDL 6 on ps3 help
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>  >> Aaron,
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>  >> I just went to the download site and I found the followng
>  >>
>  >> yellowdog-6.0-DVD_20080207.iso
>  >>
>  >> Is this the right version for the PS3?
>  >>
>  >> Thanks.
>  >>
>  >> Jason.
>  >>> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:07:31 -0700> From:
>  >>> ajohnson at terrasoftsolutions.com> To:
>  >>> yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> Subject: Re: YDL 6
>  >>> on ps3 help> > We offer a open source video player which supports
>  >>> open source formats > out of the box, however mpeg4 and dvix are
>  >>> non-free format's therefore > we cannot support them directly, we
>  >>> do offer a codec installer which > allows you to install some
>  >>> non-open source codecs for playing things > like MP3's and such.> >
>  >>>  Aaron> > Jason . wrote:> > Great,> > > > How about Video, is there
>  >>>  a video player that will play move downloads > > like mpeg4 and
>  >>> divx> > > > Thanks.> > > > Jason.> >> >> > > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008
>  >>> 10:58:56 -0700> > > From: ajohnson at terrasoftsolutions.com> > > To:
>  >>> yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> > > Subject: Re: YDL
>  >>>  6 on ps3 help> > >> > > Jason . wrote:> > > > Right now I don't
>  >>> have yellow dog on mine, I have Ubuntu, the > > wireless> > > >
>  >>> does not work, it turns out that the newest ps3 firmw
>  >>  are breaks the> > > > wireless, that is why I am wondering if those
>  >>  yellow dog programmers> > > > have fixed this issue. Anyone else
>  >> have wireless working?> > > >> > > > Jason.> > > >> > > I am the
>  >> in-house tester for YDL on PS3's and yes we do have wireless> > >
>  >> working with YDL 6.0 and GameOS 2.10 (latest as of this date).> > >>
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