RE: [iPAQ] Decreasing frame rate on an h3600

Gus,

The best way to track our work is to check out the kernel from cvs.handhelds.org (see http://www.handhelds.org/sources.html).

I do post patches in ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/pub/linux/kernel/ but there is almost always a lag from what is in cvs.

Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin (Gus) Hurwitz [mailto:ghurwitz@dyndns.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:09 PM
> To: Hicks, Jamey
> Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: RE: [iPAQ] Decreasing frame rate on an h3600
>
>
> Thanks for the info. Now the question (which I hate to ask,
> for I'm sure I
> ought know it) is where can I get the hh6 patch? For that
> matter, is there
> an open issues/patch repository somewhere? It seems I keep
> trying to fix
> problems that have just been solved; sure would be nice to
> get ahead of
> the curve and actually contribute solutions to problems that
> need them :)
>
> --Gus
>
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Hicks, Jamey wrote:
>
> >
> > Regarding the flicker:
> >
> > Please update to 2.4.18-rmk3-hh6. The problem is due to a
> bug in the
> > SA1110 that gives pcmcia priority over the DMA to the LCD.
> I added a
> > hook so that we could control the bus timing from usermode to adjust
> > for little or no flicker and working PCMCIA/CF cards. If you also
> > update to the latest version of hotplug, the scripts will adjust the
> > timing to values that seem to work pretty well. The actual
> hook is in
> >
> > /proc/sys/bus/pcmcia/timing_increment_ns
> >
> > As it says, it adjusts the bus timing by the specified number of
> > nanoseconds. The hotplug script that adjusts the timing is
> > /etc/hotplug/sleeve.agent, iirc. Other values can be specified in
> > /etc/sysconfig/hotplug.
> >
> > Regarding framerate: This is not controlled by the h3600_hal, it is
> > controlled by the framebuffer driver in drivers/video/sa1100fb.
> >
> > The asset information in the eeprom on H3600/h3700 and in flash on
> > H3800 includes the model number, serial number, language, etc.
> >
> > Jamey
> >
> >
>
> --
> Justin (Gus) Hurwitz
> ghurwitz@dyndns.com
> ghurwitz@lanl.gov
>
>
Received on Tue May 07 19:36:00 2002