From: Eugene Gorbunoff egDESPAM at DESPAMecomstation.ru

During the fall we released updates of: Evolutionary Sprint plan,  ACPI 
subsystem, Panorama video drivers,
General Network Utilities, Firewall ports setup, USB Dock, UNIAUD.


0. Evolutionary Sprint 2007/11 is published as article -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=169
(ESWay it's a plan, forecast of future eComStation development -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/esway)
  * Evolutionary = don't migrate to other platform
  * Sprint = 1-2 years to improve situation (starting from fall 2006)


1. ACPI sub-system

Current version: 3.05, BETAZONE

We published ACPI documentation  at ACPI homepage -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=faq

We have improved some global critical things during 2007 (this tasks 
required global improvements in ACPI.PSD)
  * mutexes support (to delimit the access to ACPI variables, ACPI devices)
  * PCI Scan, moved from snooper to .psd, improved.
  * suspend support for SMP computers (computers with VIA chipset are 
supported; Lenovo T60 is supported)
  * support of VIA chipset
  * support of new Danis IDE driver

moreover,
  * updated Intel ACPI machine several times
  * every user has own model of computer. we spend time to support users 
and investigate every model of PC
  * every chipset has own specific problems. the research required some monthes
  * users have old drivers - it's not easy to make them upgrade device 
drivers to versions ready for ACPI
  * OEMHLP$ driver is embedded to OS/2 kernel. it was replaced (in other 
words, the kernel of eCS is updated)



2. Video drivers

Panorama VESA is updated (20071120) -- http://ecomstation.ru/panorama
  * Panorama VESA works on old processors which do not have MTRR (useful 
for mini-notebooks).
  * Fix for "computer hangs after switch to fullscreen text mode"
  * Moreover, updated WPS Setup, updated FAQ -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/panorama/?action=faq



3. Internet utilities

  * New homepage for PMDownloader -- http://www.eros2.info
  * Firewall ports setup 20070903 -- BETAZONE
  * General Network Utilities, 20070919 -- http://ecomstation.ru/gnu



4. USB

USB Dock was updated during the fall -- BETAZONE


5. Audio-drivers

  * Uniaud for HDAudio Intel, mixer: Realtek ALC88x is released.
	 http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=item&id=799

  * Fixed resume in UniAud for compatibility with ACPI APM.



6. eCo Software support service

The hardware database contains more than 1300 reports of supported hardware 
-- http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php
You can post new reports or add notes.
Now gathering reports about sub-notebooks -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category&section=brand


7. New sites:

  * Software for eComStation  -- http://ecomstation.ru/software
  * eComStation PC -- -- http://ecomstation.ru/ecspc
  * eComStation attributes -- http://ecomstation.ru/attributes


8. Additional information:

  * Welcome to eCo Software homepage -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/ecosoft/?action=orders
  * eCo Software runtimes -- http://ecomstation.ru/ecosoft/runtime.php
  * Full pricelist of eCo Software products -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/ecosoft/?action=pricelist
  * BETAZONE -- How to download ACPI, Panorama, eSchemes? -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/mensys.html
  * Previous eCo Software newsletter -- 
http://ecomstation.ru/commentnews.php?id=1410