Re: Mobile Pro 880 Successes with 4.0

[Ben Hodgens <ben%hodgens.net@localhost>]

Funny you should mention this today, as I just made a tarball of the pkgsrc 
'packages' dir I made on/for my MobilePro 780 (essentially the same machine as 
the 880) available yesterday:

http://benjamin.hodgens.net/files/packages-netbsd-4.0mipsel.2008.10.tgz

There aren't nearly as many packages available as you built, but as the file 
name suggests, they're from 2008/10's 'current' pkgsrc. Here's a partial list:

epic4-2.2nb1
jed 0.99
mutt 1.4.2.3nb2
ncurses 5.6nb2
ncursesw 5.6nb2
lua 5.1.4
luafilesystem 1.4.1
antiword 0.37nb1
flwm 1.02
ion 20040729nb6
matchbox-wm 1.1
x11-links 0.39
matchbox-panel 0.9.2nb3
matchbox-themes-extra 0.3nb1
matchbox-wm 1.1
matchbox-desktop 0.9.1nb3

In my limited experience, this device simply doesn't have enough RAM to function 
  with NetBSD 4.0, even with very minimalist non-console tools (X, ion, 3 
xterms). There might be some pruning of the running processes, but even with 
pretty much everything "off" it's still bumping up against the ceiling of the 
32Mb. Though I did determine that ion is a wonderful window manager for a small 
touchscreen such as the 780 has!

Regards,
Ben

jscottkasten%yahoo.com@localhost wrote:
> I've been using the MP880 with NetBSD 4.0 for about a year now as a home brew 
> netbook.
>
> If anyone is interested, I have approximately 200 binary packages built from 
> PKGSRC 2007Q4.  This includes languages such as perl, python, ruby, etc.  
> Editors such as nano and vim-gtk2.  Web browsing with javascript enabled 
> elinks, and dillo.  And some multimedia stuff such as mplayer.
>
> With the right encoding parameters, one can have an MP4 video playing in the 
> corner of the screen while typing an email in an xterm.
>
> The developers have truly done some wonderful work on the 880 support as it is 
> a very functional and reliable little beast.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -S-

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