We evaluated the 5MX board last fall and found the support to be lackluster
to say the least. One issue we had was really poor Ethernet performance
under load. We were really put off by the attitude they gave us which was
that our kernel version was to blame. Only after much prodding (~six weeks)
did they do anything about it. It turned out to not be the Ethernet at all
but a bug in the PCI BIOS (at least that is what we were told). We had a
serial port issue that was never resolved.
I wonder if they determined the 5MX was a dog and decided to give up.
It seams they are placing most of their effort in the MachZ SOC.
John
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Shiloh
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 4:30 PM
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Subject: RE: linux on zfmicro 5mx board with lcd and touchscreen
Pavel and others:
thanks for all your help. i was able to get the touchscreen working very
nicely. can't say the same for the lcd; i'm unable to control the display
very much; i found an XF86Config file that works but almost any changes
i make to it cause the machine to crash.
i can't say i'm very impressed with the support from zfmicro. they
claim to support linux but it took them a long time to find answers
to my questions; in most cases, by the time they got back to me i'd
already found the answer on the web. they did send me a couple of
XF86Config files which either didn't change anything or worse,
caused the machine to crash.
i'm rather suprised; have other people had better experience with them?
i'd like to hear that they are really wonderful and this is just a fluke,
but unless i'm convinced otherwise, i'm going to return the 5MX board
and go with a different manufacturer.
thanks,
michael
> >i do have the elo driver installed.
>
>You mean, xf86Elo.so? It's not exactly the driver, it's
>XInput extension which reads data from the real driver
>than converts it into "mouse" events and sends to X.
>
>If controller attached to the serial port xf86Elo will use
>serial port driver as input and so doesn't need special
>touch driver.
>
> >here is the relevent section from my XF86config file:
> <snip>
> >Section "Pointer"
> > Protocol "Microsoft"
> > Device "/dev/ttyS1"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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