On 03:18 Thu 06 Jan , wu zhangjin 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 > 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 ;-) ]
Just grab the stage3-loongson2f_n32-20100725.tar.bz2 under experimental/mips/stages/loongson/ directory of any gentoo mirror, like: http://mirrors.xmu.edu.cn/gentoo/experimental/mips/stages/loongson/ Then follow gentoo handbook to install it http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml Basically installing gentoo using a stage3 tarball is as simple as the following steps: 1. prepare a partition 2. unpack stage3 and portage tarball 3. chroot into the partition and modify some configuration files. 4. install necessary packages and bootloader Then you are good to go. > > 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 -- ZHANG, Le http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973
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