have you tried pairing yourn FR to the ps3 to use it as a controller/keyboard/music(or picture)streamer/whatever ?
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:02 AM, <roguem...@roguewrt.org> wrote: > On 6/05/2009 1:53 PM, The Digital Pioneer wrote: >> Yeah, I know the PS3 has very little RAM, but it's extremely fast RAM is >> it not? I've also been told 3D isn't working... Do you have any idea >> if/when it will? And how's the actual system speed? You've got 8 threads >> available to you, do you not? Two PPU threads, and 6 SPU? I know one SPU >> is kept disabled, and another is reserved for the PS3 OS. Still, 8 >> threads at 3.2GHz each should be blazing fast. But that's all theory. > > To be honest I haven't really got dirty on the command line yet, I was > more interested in out-of-the-box functionality in-so-far as the > distro's X capabilities were concerned. > > As I said before, 3D acceleration is not available at this time, this is > something I believe they imposed so that PS2 emulation is not possible. > It's always possible that it will become available but I've not heard of > anything yet. > > Utilising the vram as swap effectively adds ram. So general performance > is fine. It's when you do something gpu intensive that the cpus load up > and the system slows down significantly. Openoffice and printing work > fine though :) > > So as for the specifics, I can't say much. I haven't looked at the > available CPUs but gkrellm was only reporting 2 at the time. If I get a > chance I might delve deeper and revisit this thread but no promises :) > > I get the impression, though this is speculative, that YDL utilises more > of the system. Or maybe it just does it better. Either way the > experience is more polished. > > Sarton > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community