On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:18 AM, wu zhangjin <wuzhang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Folks
>
> If your YeeLoong netbook is still too slow, It's time for you updating
> your system.
>
> Firstly, please update your kernel to the latest 2.6.37 for
> Loongson[1], are you still using 2.6.37? oh, no, please ... why
^^^^^ I mean 2.6.27
here, it was a typo ;-)
> 2.6.37? more features like ext4, better response performance with the
> session autogroup patch, more power saving support(hibernation,
> suspend, backlight, battery...), better user experience(hotkey).
>
> Secondly, If you are a Linux expert, please Install Gentoo for
> Loogson[2] maintained by Zhang Le, otherwise, please to to Debian 6.0
> for Loongson[3] maintained by Liu Shiwei.
>
> I'm not the expert, so, I have simply installed the pre-installed
> Debian 6.0 for Loongson here:
> http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson/install/
>
> [ For experts, welcome Zhang Le to add a quick start for installing
> gentoo on Loongson machines ;-) ]
>
> To install it, we can simply download the latest package to one of our
> empty partitions on YeeLoong harddrive and add an optoin for it in
> /boot/boot.cfg.
>
> For Gnome Desktop:
>
> $ wget -c
> http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson/install/loongson2_debian6_20101225.tar.lzma
>
> For LXDE:
>
> $ wget -c
> http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson/install/loongson2_debian6_lxde_20101225.tar.lzma
>
> Then, assume you have an empty parition /dev/sdaN, format it to ext4
> and mount it to /mnt:
>
> $ mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdaN
> $ mount /dev/sdaN /mnt
>
> Decompress the lzma package to /mnt
>
> $ cd /mnt
> $ lzma -cd loongson2_debian6_xxxx_.tar.lzma | tar -xf -C /mnt
>
> Then, Copy the kernel images to your current /boot
>
> $ cp -r /mnt/boot/* /boot/
>
> At last, add a new boot option in /boot/boot.cfg, e.g.
>
> title Debian 6.0
> kernel (wd0,0)/boot/<put the name of the latest kernel image here>
> args console=tty root=/dev/sdaN
>
> Check it and reboot, at last, you will get a faster system.
>
> Gnome has better softwares than LXDE, so, it is recommended, but LXDE
> is faster. If you want Gnome faster, you can refer to [4] and use a
> light weight login manager(e.g. slim) instead of gdm. and to get a
> faster web brower, midori may be a good choice, I have tried it, it is
> very fast, for the audio player, moc(music on console) may be a good
> choice.
>
> Why the systems maintained by Zhang Le and Liu Shiwei are faster? For
> they have added the softwares optimized for Loongson, e.g. Xorg
> siliconmotion driver[5], Pixman[6], ffmpeg[7]. and the Gentoo
> maintained by Zhang Le also allow the users to compile it with N32 ABI
> to get better performance.
>
> Some other optimizations may be not available in the above systems,
> e.g. Mplayer[8], this has not been maintained for a long time, but
> somebody may reactivate it ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wu Zhangjin
> --------
> [1] http://dev.lemote.com/code/linux-loongson-community
> [2] http://dev.lemote.com/code/linux-loongson-community#Gentoon32
> [3] http://dev.lemote.com/code/linux-loongson-community#Debian6.0Recommend
> [4] http://dev.lemote.com/code/linux-loongson-community#Xwindow
> [5] http://dev.lemote.com/code/linux-loongson-community/wiki/x11-yeeloong
> [6] http://dev.lemote.com/code/Pixman.Loongson
> [7]
> http://gentoo-overlays.zugaina.org/loongson/portage/media-video/ffmpeg/files/ffmpeg-loongson.patch
> [8] http://dev.lemote.com/code/mplayer
>
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