On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:15:03 +1000 Ray Wells <[email protected]> wrote:
> I recently bought an Olimex A13 SBC as a possible replacement for the > RPi, anticipating speed advantages from the 1GHz processor and 512MB > RAM. The A13 has more I/O options than the RPi - vga video, audio in > and out, three external and one internal USB plus lots of GPIO and > such. It also runs from a 12v supply. The one downside of the A13 is > the lack of on-board ethernet but a $9.00 usb dongle fixed that > shortcoming. I bought the A13 without the internal wifi module and > have installed vanilla Debian 7.0 on the 8GB micro SD card. > > Kernel ax25 was compiled without any issues. I struck a couple of > dependency issues compiling xastir but all were resolved - > graphicsmagic instead of imagemagic and compile geotiff and gdal from > sources. Xastir is now working really well with raster maps, well > enough that I'm contemplating an Olimex 7" LCD touch screen with a > view to a mobile installation of xastir. > > Ray vk2tv > Sounds really good Ray. My problem with mobile screens is not being able to see them at all in the bright sunlight. I guess your eyes may be even older than mine, with a 2 letter call sign, so I would be interested in how you go overall. I'm using an original eeepc for the car with Xastir. Liz VK2XSE _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
