On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 01:13:40PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone know about them, particularly whether you could run Xastir on it? > > This is the device that triggered my message of a few days ago about > "ARM systems". > > This thing is evidently a chumby device, if that means anything to you. > > I went by BestBuy and fingerprinted one, but I think it was busted (I > couldn't get past the "select a wireless network" page). Can't really > hold that against it, with it being a display model. If you look for > it in the store, look near the Sony Dash "personal internet viewer". > > It did have a 5V input, so it should be fairly simple to power it in the > truck. > > The motherboard is in the base of the L-shaped case. > > the touchscreen is the resistive type, which means a matte layer on > top of the screen. > > The price is approaching impulse-buy level. If I had time for yet > another project, I might have pulled the trigger. As it stands, I'm > waiting for someone else to go first. :)
So far, I have seen only hacks related to getting Qt and WebKit running on it, and those are for embedded linux, Qt-under-X. That doesn't mean one couldn't compile an X server and get it running on this thing, but it would take some doing. Having a Qt-based APRS client instead would probably be the right approach. It would be a nice target platform, for sure. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
