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(PS3Linux) Open Platform for PS3 - site open with instructions

Interesting docs on the innard working of the Ps3 Linux kernel:

http://felter.org/wesley/files/ps3/linux-20061110-docs/

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Mr. Tone said:
What gives you the impression that chips with the PPC instruction set are innately slow?
The source of the sluggish performance is likely to be the lack of RAM available to the OS.

Edit: I mean, it would be fair enough to say "you can definitely tell this is a custom processor, and not a general-purpose desktop chip doing the calculations".
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Fair enough. Though that wasn't a knock on Moto's arch, just the fact that it's, what? 500 mhz?
 
iapetus said:
1124x634?
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Yea... I dunno, that's what the resolution defaulted to... I was afraid to tinker around with the resolution settings so much due to the fact that they claim it can mess up your television... I'm not gonna even risk it, although the chance is unlikely.

MAN my eyes hurt trying to use that thing. I have a 32 inch hd set, and the text was pretty clear, but it's still got nothin on my pc monitor that I can use from a foot away.... It's cool... but it's mos def nothing I'd use to surf the web regularly on. Emulators, and Tivo-esque functions sure, but replacement for my desktop? I'll pass.
 
JeffDowns said:
Yea... I dunno, that's what the resolution defaulted to... I was afraid to tinker around with the resolution settings so much due to the fact that they claim it can mess up your television... I'm not gonna even risk it, although the chance is unlikely.

MAN my eyes hurt trying to use that thing. I have a 32 inch hd set, and the text was pretty clear, but it's still got nothin on my pc monitor that I can use from a foot away.... It's cool... but it's mos def nothing I'd use to surf the web regularly on. Emulators, and Tivo-esque functions sure, but replacement for my desktop? I'll pass.
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Ctrl-+ to enlarge the fonts in firefox...

Also if you want to change the resolution you could edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I'm still trying to find out where it stores font size for the windows... changing it one by one in config panel is a pain...
 
RuGalz said:
Ctrl-+ to enlarge the fonts in firefox...

Also if you want to change the resolution you could edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I'm still trying to find out where it stores font size for the windows... changing it one by one in config panel is a pain...
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does it force a font size change? i.e ignores 'absolute font size' CSS stuff (like GAF uses, grr) that screws with the PS3 browser?
 
mrklaw said:
does it force a font size change? i.e ignores 'absolute font size' CSS stuff (like GAF uses, grr) that screws with the PS3 browser?
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Yes.

Stinkles said:
Anyone hosting the allegedly free YDL yet?
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There's a link to a torrent earlier in the thread.
 
Question before I install:
Do you need a USB mouse or will the controller work until I get one? I have the keyboard already.
 
lessthanthree said:
Question before I install:
Do you need a USB mouse or will the controller work until I get one? I have the keyboard already.
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You need a usb mouse and keyboard, yes. At least you do for Fedora. I am sure you do for YDL install too.
 
I have the 3.5GB ISO - is anyone willing to offer mirrors or know of a place where I can upload them to?

I have a site but I think it will only support maybe 2-3,000 downloads before all my bandwidth is gone.

I am correct in saying it is legal to distribute?
 
Currently installing very slowly right now.

I didn't read that changing resolutions could harm your TV? Any links to where I can see this info so I know beforehand?
 
BE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR FILES. That's all I gotta say. ALL of my stuff got deleted. I thought this was just doing a partition, not reformatting the whole drive. ARGH. All my RR7 data, GONE. I feel so dumb....
 
JeffDowns said:
BE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR FILES. That's all I gotta say. ALL of my stuff got deleted. I thought this was just doing a partition, not reformatting the whole drive. ARGH. All my RR7 data, GONE. I feel so dumb....
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You should feel dumb, because it warns you that exact thing will happen.
 
antiloop said:
Yes, If you look at the vids 1 or 2 pages back he got it working without problems.
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it's not connecting for me. i'm at the network configuration screen thing, and I have no idea what to enter for the wireless adapter brand. Are you sure that guy wasnt on a wire?
 
JeffDowns said:
Yea... I dunno, that's what the resolution defaulted to... I was afraid to tinker around with the resolution settings so much due to the fact that they claim it can mess up your television... I'm not gonna even risk it, although the chance is unlikely.

MAN my eyes hurt trying to use that thing. I have a 32 inch hd set, and the text was pretty clear, but it's still got nothin on my pc monitor that I can use from a foot away.... It's cool... but it's mos def nothing I'd use to surf the web regularly on. Emulators, and Tivo-esque functions sure, but replacement for my desktop? I'll pass.
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This page goes through the resolution stuff. says it defaults to 720p if you use the normal boot? Here's a snippet

Code: 
0:auto mode
	YUV
	60Hz 1:480i 2:480p 3:720p 4:1080i  5:1080p
	50Hz 6:576i 7:576p 8:720p 9:1080i 10:1080p
	RGB
	vesa 11:WXGA 12:SXGA 13WUXGA
	60Hz 33:480i 34:480p 35:720p 36:1080i 37:1080p
	50Hz 38:576i 39:576p 40:720p 41:1080i 42:1080p

Once the system is started, you may try several video modes to determine which will work with your monitor or television. The mode can be changed by invoking the ps3videomode program:
ps3videomode -v #
Where # is one of the video mode numbers listed above. The default "install" and "ydl" options use mode 3, running at 720p. Mode 1 is a safe default that works on the most monitors or televisions.
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Anyone happen to get yum working? I keep getting this error:

Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

Which leads me to believe that their repositories aren't even up?
 
SleazyC said:
Anyone happen to get yum working? I keep getting this error:

Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

Which leads me to believe that their repositories aren't even up?
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Their repositories isn't up on the net but you can wire it to point to the repository on the DVD.
 
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Toying around trying to get mplayer to install right now. Anyone had any success running commonly encoded media files yet?
 
Ok, any benches yet? It's gotta be faster than Fedora, and I'd love to see what sort of util of the SPEs they're getting. Does it show the different cores like Fedora? I think Fedora was showing two 1.6GHz "cores" (threads), so I wondered if YDL did the same or maybe even showing the SPEs. PEACE.
 
Pimpwerx said:
Ok, any benches yet? It's gotta be faster than Fedora, and I'd love to see what sort of util of the SPEs they're getting. Does it show the different cores like Fedora? I think Fedora was showing two 1.6GHz "cores" (threads), so I wondered if YDL did the same or maybe even showing the SPEs. PEACE.
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It uses 6 of them, says that when you boot up.
 
lessthanthree said:
Still need help with WiFi...
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For the record, I have never used YDL or a PS3 and have no clue whether standard methods are of any use - but what does 'ifconfig' and 'iwconfig' report if you run them in a terminal?
 
lessthanthree said:
it's not connecting for me. i'm at the network configuration screen thing, and I have no idea what to enter for the wireless adapter brand. Are you sure that guy wasnt on a wire?
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Actually he says that he is using wi-fi in one of the vids and he can connect to the Internet. But it can be a lie I guess.

Pimpwerx: The SPE:s are available but no applications are currently using them. The Kernel may have some optimizations though.
 
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