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<TITLE>RE: [vlc] Re: Zaurus 5500 - No Sound?</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Jean,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----> From: Jean-Paul Saman </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Masiyowski, John wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > got the Zaurus reloaded.. sometimes when I do a reboot, the Zaurus </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > hangs, the screen display goes wackey and the only way to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> recover is to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > do a hard reset. This hang up happened after I installed the QPE </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > terminal application.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Looks like a clash in libraries ? Or a memory problem I </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> noticed you only </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> had 30 MB as memory is that correct or a wrong setting??</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> "Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 mem=30M"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> It seems to me like a little low on memory. I would expected </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> it to have </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> about 64MB of memory not 32MB.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>According the the product sheet, the SL-5500 should have 64MB for applications.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>It looks like the memory is split between memory (working) and storage); 32 MB each...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>According to the system Info GUI, with no apps running, 19MB memory is free, with 15MB</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>cached, and 8MB used.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The SL-5600 has 64MB of protected Flash ROM and 32 MB or SDRAM.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > The situation however will become better when there is a GUI</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > under OPIE</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > (only needs time or some one to work on it). The CVS </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> version already</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > includes RTSP support for VLC, so the server can then trigger</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > VLC that a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > stream has ended.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > This will help.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Let me bring up another scenario where by it is good for </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the vlc to be </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > able to timeout.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > If the network connection between the vlc and the server </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> (vlc or vls) is </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > broken (which can happen when vlc is either the iPAQ or </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Zaurus using a </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > WLAN connection) and cannot be re-eastalished, then the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> message from the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > server cannot be delivered. Thus, the client is waiting </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> indefinately...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Yep, but if you got some connection back you'd like to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> continue watching </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> without hassle ;-). Anyway with a GUI the user would have a choice of </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> stopping the application and without ...... well you know ;-)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>John</FONT>
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