sjiggag23 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Did anyone else install linux on their machine? I dont know how to get wireless internet to work, can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thagame Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 try a diff linux. i put gentoo on mine and internet works fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjiggag23 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 do you find linux to run particularly fast on your system? i was thinking that with the ps3's specs, it should be lightning. i dont see much example of that though, its weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thagame Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 no it dont run fast. my pc actually runs it better so im more then likely taking the console back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 No it won't run fast. It only has access to the CPU and one 256MB bank of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjiggag23 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 on terrasoft's website, it says the ps3 has access to 6 of the 8 spe's or whatever the term is. i dont really understand. does it have 8 processors or 8 cores or did they just create a cool spin to something old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 on terrasoft's website, it says the ps3 has access to 6 of the 8 spe's or whatever the term is. i dont really understand. does it have 8 processors or 8 cores or did they just create a cool spin to something old? I think the operating systems that can be installed are restricted to only single core, 256MB RAM and no direct access to graphics hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman2000 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) PS3 has 8 SPE's I dont have enough knowledge to explain them, but the Cell is actually a single core processor the SPE's are kinda like virtual cores. Linux wont run too good as it cant access the gpu and only get 256 ram from the system. In one typical usage scenario, the system will load the SPEs with small programs (similar to threads), chaining the SPEs together to handle each step in a complex operation. For instance, a set-top box might load programs for reading a DVD, video and audio decoding, and display, and the data would be passed off from SPE to SPE until finally ending up on the TV. Another possibility is to partition the input data set and have several SPEs performing the same kind of operation in parallel. At 3.2 GHz, each SPU gives a theoretical 25.6 GFLOPS of single precision performance.Compared to a modern personal computer, the relatively high overall floating point performance of a Cell processor seemingly dwarfs the abilities of the SIMD unit in desktop CPUs like the Pentium 4 and the Athlon 64. However, comparing only floating point abilities of a system is a one-dimensional and application-specific metric. Unlike a Cell processor, such desktop CPUs are more suited to the general purpose software usually run on personal computers. In addition to executing multiple instructions per clock, processors from Intel and AMD feature branch predictors. The Cell is designed to compensate for this with compiler assistance, in which prepare-to-branch instructions are created. For double-precision, as used in personal computers, Cell performance drops by an order of magnitude, but still reaches 14 GFLOPS. Bit from Wikipedia. That bold parts should give you a rough idea of why you dont see any blistering performance. Apart from that the Cell arciteture is way too complicate dfor most of us to understand. Edited January 5, 2007 by Hitman2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrCheese Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 no it dont run fast. my pc actually runs it better so im more then likely taking the console back. Its a console not a PC so erm... If you want Linux buy a PC and not a games machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Its a console not a PC so erm...If you want Linux buy a PC and not a games machine It's a console built very much like a server. It'd make a nice, relatively cheap Cell server if you could actually use the Cell completely. People kinda expecting a homebrew Xbox sort of experience got their hopes shot down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjiggag23 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) what media types does ps3 play? mpg, avi, mov, vob, wmv? divx, xvid? wma, mp3, aac, wav, ogg? is there a list anywhere? EDIT: i just put some mp3's, mov's, mpg's, avi's, and a wmv on a memory stick. i put it in my system and on every menu....video, music, photos....it says that there is nothing in there. what am i doing wrong? the same thing happened when i hooked my iriver to it which functions as a portable hdd Edited January 5, 2007 by sjiggag23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huleboeren Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 what media types does ps3 play? mpg, avi, mov, vob, wmv? divx, xvid? wma, mp3, aac, wav, ogg?is there a list anywhere? EDIT: i just put some mp3's, mov's, mpg's, avi's, and a wmv on a memory stick. i put it in my system and on every menu....video, music, photos....it says that there is nothing in there. what am i doing wrong? the same thing happened when i hooked my iriver to it which functions as a portable hdd If you have linux installed - technically, it could play anything :p Im not sure if VideoLAN will work www.videolan.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjiggag23 Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 i meant from the gameOS, not linux, obviously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjiggag23 Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 so nobody plays any sort of media on their ps3 to help me out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin001 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 When u put in a USB storage device at first i thought the same as u! But what u do is go to photos, videos or Music and press Triangle then go to something like 'Show all Files' then u can browse the folders etc.. Theres a list somewhere but cudnt be bothered to get link :p im pretty sure if u go to the Ps3 Help on the ps3 console in the Internet Section it will tell you! I remember it sayin only MPEG's etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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