Thought about replacing the screen? - others have apparently done so. There were a few emails on the subject at one time. Also, the earlier neo used the same screen, so a dead neo might be a donor if you can source one.
BillK On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Last week I lived an atrocious adventure: a small crease appeared on my > Freerunner screen, and within days it turned into an enormous break... Now > the sensitive part of the screen is almost uneffective, which in other > words means the (three weeks old) FR is unusable... > > Until I am rich again, one path I see to still get something out of it is > to have it turned into an "ordinary" GPS that would connect either via > bluetooth or USB to a small laptop, where an openstreetmap-related viewer > would run. > > I have found on the wiki some instructions to do this, at > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GPS , but I am not sure they > aren't obsolete (same page says "gpsd is obsolete"...) and also given the > evolution of my touchscreen I need some automatic process that in > principle would not need the screen at all. > > Is there a simple way (script?) to > - automatically turn on bluetooth upon startup (and turn off GSM as we are > at it) > - automatically start GPS and configure it to "answer bluetooth" as such? > > Or the same through USB, which may be even better (I wouldn't have to pair > the laptop)? > > Knowing that > - the laptop would be linux-based (Mandriva) > - on the Freerunner I currently have the latest FDOM distribution (but I > could reflash to whatever you suggest) > - I am using Mandriva and FR more out of political decisions than geek > competence: consider I am indeed quite a newbie, and the more step-by-step > your advice will be, the better it'll be to get me out of despair ;-) > > TIA! > Hervé > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
