Nice to see you're still here Sean :) Speaking of VR3s also, Lalo pointed me to this, and I thought it might be of interest to the people on this list- Softfield Technoligies (http://www.softfield.com) is selling new VR3 units for only about twice the cost of a bargain-basement Helio unit. $105 for a unit with 8MB ram, and $135 for 16MB ram.
No color screens and obscene amounts of memory like the iPaq or Zaurus, but it's a practical system that still has a developer community surrounding it. On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 06:25:21PM -0500, Sean Barnes wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Speaking of the VR3 stuff, I just wanted to let you guys know I haven't > completely disappeared. School's taken up almost all of my time (projects, > exams, AP's, the SAT, and all of that fun stuff), but I've been trying to > follow the list. > > One thing that's come up on the VR3 mailing list is a new system for > building the libraries that should make things binary compatible between > updates. As it is now I have to rebuild the entire system from source if > anything changes in libpgui (not just interface changes, but anything that > moves the functions around in the compiled binary). From what I understand, > it's being tested right now and sometime someone will build an official > romdisk out of it with all of the libraries and everything. Once that > happens it'll be less time consuming to maintain a PicoGUI distro for the > VR3. > > As far as hardware buttons, there is another utility that AC added that will > retrieve the current key press. I don't recall the name, but init calls it > at some point to determine if tpcal should run or not. > > -Sean > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lalo Martins > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 4:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Pgui-devel] VR3 hardware buttons (Re: Monitoring keyboard > input) > > > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:26:48PM -0600, Micah Dowty wrote: > > The current driver just maps the soft buttons to F1 through F7.. there's > no hardware button support yet. If there's a way to get hardware button > events from the kernel, it could be added to the vr3ts driver. > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 06:22:54PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote: > > > Speaking of which, any news wrt using the hardware buttons on pgui? > > The vr3 distro uses something called "gbm" to receive events from hardware > buttons and pass them on to X. I thought it generated kernel keyboard events > (at least it prints the expected junk ("^[[D" etc) to the console if I press > buttons during bootup), but if I leave it running then run pgserver with > ttykb input, it doesn't seem to receive anything from gbm. > > The sources to the vr3 version of gbm can be found at > http://agenda-snow.sf.net/release/source/contrib in case any C programmers > want to see how it's done. > > []s, > |alo > +---- > -- > It doesn't bother me that people say things like > "you'll never get anywhere with this attitude". > In a few decades, it will make a good paragraph > in my biography. You know, for a laugh. > -- > http://www.laranja.org/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > pgp key: http://www.laranja.org/pessoal/pgp > > Eu jogo RPG! (I play RPG) http://www.eujogorpg.com.br/ > Python Foundry Guide http://www.sf.net/foundry/python-foundry/ > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel -- Only you can prevent creeping featurism! _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
