PixieLive

9 reactions

• 1 From MrTide - 09/10/2010, 21:38

  Thanks dude! Really looking forward for that implementation of the EMGD driver. If you need any beta tester to try it I would be very glad to help you.
  One more thing would it be possible that you implement the drivers for the Broadcom b43?

• 2 From Christian Lorandi - 10/10/2010, 01:36

  @MrTide:

  • about b43: if it's simple i will, you will be my beta tester for that since i miss the hardware :-)
  • about EMGD: it would be ready, as you can see in the screenshot they works, but the problem is the 3D, it freeze the system after some time. It's a strange behavior since it require much more time to freeze if i run glxgears in failsafe respect as the same program run in gnome. Anyway, it's a well known problem of EMGD drivers compiled in gentoo (reference), no idea about a possible solution at the moment, i hope in a future better release :-(

• 3 From Pixel - 10/10/2010, 08:02

  Nice, new EMGD version 1.5 just came out a couple of days ago. Hope it works much better than the 1.0 that was release in June/July. :)

• 4 From Christian Lorandi - 11/10/2010, 10:44

  @Pixel:

  EMGD-1.5 WORKS GOOD!!!

  no more freeze on 3D, working on TuxOnIce now...

• 5 From Christian Lorandi - 11/10/2010, 15:42

  TuxOnIce report:

  • Resuming from hibernation, lzo compression: 16 sec (from the boot-loader blue screen to gnome fully working), not bad at all
  • Resuming from hibernation on swap partition DON'T NEED to set the resume=/swap/partition in the bootloader, IT'S FOUND AUTOMATICALLY
  • Suspend to file is working (you don't need a swap partition, you can use a swapfile but NOT on the pendrive, it must be on the disk or it will crash during hibernation because the USB is powered off before complete hibernation, may be this can be solved with some kernel options)
  • You can SUSPEND to BOTH (RAM and disk at the same time) (like MacOSX) (if your battery is enough you will have a 2 sec boot, if it run out, you will have a boot like from hibernation, no data loss if you run out of battery when in sleep mode)

  that's pretty nice imho
  

• 6 From RapierTG - 11/10/2010, 18:23

  Great job. I think i will give pixie second chance if the drivers will work decent.

• 7 From MrTide - 16/10/2010, 04:05

  @Christian
  Can't wait to try the new EMGD drivers!
  I hope they fixed all the performance problems we had ...

• 8 From PhatFriar - 18/10/2010, 21:42

  I would like to second the motion to include a broadcom 43 driver, with it Pixie will be about perfect for me!

• 9 From Christian Lorandi - 19/10/2010, 14:42

  @MrTIde & PhatFriar:

  b43 should be already compiled as module, try to 

  modprobe b43

  manually as root, if it doesn't work reboot and post your

  lspci -n

  and

  lsmod

  on http://pastebin.com so i can understand which kind of hardware you have