On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:22:36PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > 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.
"NOT" Qt-under-X (i.e. Qt interacting with a framebuffer directly, not talking to an X server). Gotta watch it before I hit send. Could be fun to hack, but getting X running on it might be a pain in the short run. -- 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
