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I've not read anywhere about anyone getting this working yet (unless it works out of the box and I just have bad luck) so I thought I would post here in case anyone is trying similar and runs into problems. After a bit of searching and fiddling, I managed to get my Logitech QuickCam Messenger (046d:...

Trying to call hypervisor functions from userspace should result in a return code of LV1_NO_PRIVILEGE (-3). You'll need to call the hypervisor function from a kernel module (called by your userspace program) for the call to be allowed.

I'm confused... If you connect a scart cable, you get RGBS out from PS3, right? No, by default it's YPbPr and there's (currently) no option in the XMB to change to RGB. Have a look at the pinout, http://www.gamesx.com/avpinouts/psxav.htm , there are not enough pins for both YPbPr and RGB at the sam...

I didn't manage to get my PS2 RGBS cable (which I made from a PS2 scart cable) working with my PAL PS3, though I did get it working in YPbPr once I'd figured out which way to connect it up (I managed to accidently get the Y working with Pb and Pr the wrong way round) PS2 / PS3 use the same pins for ...

Gardo wrote: BTW any way to unisntall fink?

I got rid of fink by deleting the /sw directory.

I dumped the repository values (using lv1_get_repository_node_value) for the device bus a couple of weeks ago and I remember there being entries corresponding to PS3_DEV_TYPE_STOR_ROM and PS3_DEV_TYPE_STOR_FLASH.

I forgot to add the info to the wiki - I will add it asap.

It's not explicitly limited to 256 as the parameter is a u64, though there are no calls above 255 publicly defined as yet.

Browsing the code, it appears to be (9 x 2 + 1) * 1024 * 1024. The extra meg is used for 1MB alignment required by the GPU.

Yeah, kboot iterates devices /dev/sd[a-z] looking for the string "cell_ext_os_area" at the start of each. It's /dev/sdb on mine too.

OpenGL or Wifi? (both of which could require a hypervisor upgrade)

I still reckon there's something in 1.5 that they don't want us to find.

As noted by others, when allocating and mapping DDR, a chunk of memory at the beginning of the area seemed only to retain values for a suspiciously short period of time, presumably being overwritten by the frame buffer blit. I've had ps3fb disabled in my kernel for the past week or so, but I've only...

Yup, it worries me too about the possibility of one day losing of all the data we've added.

lv1_gpu_memory_allocate returns a logical partition address for the allocated memory. This lpar address must be iomapped before the memory can be accessed. The allocator does seem to perform some checking as it is not possible, for example, to allocate 252 MB a second time without freeing the first ...

We have the code for the kernel, so there are some things that we do not need to speculate about. 18 MB (+ 1MB for alignment) of memory is allocated by default on startup by the kernel for the local framebuffer. The kernel also takes care of initialising the GPU, mapping the GPU IO interface into me...

The interest is the .self is that it contains the hypervisor code Is there anything official about that? I would have thought the hypervisor would have been initialised from the firmware during startup, reducing the possibilities for circumvention. Although I do wonder if they left something daft i...

I've created a hypervisor module. I've tidied it up and if it's up to scratch then it should be in SVN soon.

It's not totally useful (many things can only be performed from kernel space) but it's fun for poking around.

Enlightenment window manager: http://www.enlightenment.org/

They are currently working towards version 0.17

Heh, I came in by a link too and then hit the front page. Rather than an elaborate hoax, the lack of info made it more believable.

I was curious that SVN and wiki were still up though. Took me another 30 minutes to realise what day it was :)

I had hotplug issues in kboot when installing the distro. I haven't tried it since though.

Erp, hope you get them back! Let us know how you get on - I suspect I may need to repartition.

I've read that you can redownload games you've bought from the store, but I've not tried it, so I can't say for sure.

GameOS will read my 80GB FAT32 USB drive. On the Linux side, my install doesn't seem to have vfat support, so it recognises the drive but can't mount it yet.

Yes, a format will remove everything - games, music, saves etc.

You can plug in USB drives, but I found that hot plugging didn't work - I needed to boot with the device attached for it to be found properly.

Ah, it's just struck me that it's because it's not RGB - it's Y, Pr, Pb :)

All the AV pinouts I've seen mention only RGB.

I installed Ubuntu using an SD TV over composite and it was fine (apart from the low res obviously)

Got it working!

The G and B were the wrong way round. I'm confused as it worked fine the other way round on my PS2.

Mmmm, 1080i now on my telly :)

Are Playstation component cables just pass-thru or do they have electronic gubbins in there too? I made a cable last year for my PS2 which appears to work with RGB but not component. It doesn't work with HD resolutions on my PS3 (my TV says "no sync" and goes into power saving mode) I'm ha...

".m" is also the extension for Objective C files, so on OS X gcc tries to compile the file and fails. If you search the other OS X threads, there's a way to fix this (you need to build with "make -r" I think)

Bootloader and install instructions for Fedora are here: ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Sony-PS3/

I've not downloaded it as I don't have a PS3 (yet) but it's supposed to be framebuffer only support, no RSX.

The first few errors looks like it can't find SDL. Have you got you libs the right way round in the makefile?

The rest of the errors look to do with OGG support. You either need to get an OGG lib or disable OGG support.

The PSPGL distribution already contains such demos - have a look in the demo directory.