--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Russell Hyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, Hi gals > > I still have yet to purchase a pre-ordered kit, but I'll do so before > your campaign runs down. awesome, thanks russell > Obviously, I understand this is early days, and your current kit so > far as I understand doesn't include USB3 and potentially doesn't > include enough voltage for what I would consider a cool use of the > tech; it's covered in the q/a on the questions... hang on, i had to cut the official one quite short, the longer explanation is on here http://rhombus-tech.net/crowdsupply/ search for "SATA" > though, like I say, it might not be technically possible up > front. So, you may have seen displaylink monitors yeah back in 2010 or so i helped bernie out with testing a UD-160A and one of the 7in 800x600 USB-powered monitors to get it working with ARM, there was a little-endian byte-swapped issue in the linux kernel driver, bernie fixed that. > (of course, I'm not > quite sure of the libre-ness of these monitors, fully GPLv2 compliant (at least the UD-160A and the 7in USB-powered monitor is) > but I use one on my > Mac Mini and it does provide a neat way of lugging around a 17 inch > monitor without the drag of anything other than a USB 3 cable). ... i did 4 screens on a mac laptop by adding one via a UD-160A... :) > In theory these also support GNU/Linux devices as well. in *reality* i *know* that the USB2 ones work perfectly. > (But I haven't > yet bought a USB 3 card for my libre IBM to test this out in reality). i've not bought a USB3 one, i don't trust USB3 yet. heard about all the problems.... and now i am testing out TP150 802.11n WIFI dongles with the EOMA68-A20, guess what's happening? grrr.... https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/2016-July/014729.html > But, whilst I would still want to support your computer system at this > stage, as regards daily, repeated usage in the earliest stages, I feel > supporting that type of hardware may be required and would allow the > net top version of the device to become more laptop-esque.) yeahyeah - no i get it: tested already back in 2010, on a beagleboard clone: worked great. > Thanks in advance for answering my question, and thanks again for this > great project. thanks russell. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
