arm-netbook August 2016

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on duty
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

https://loadaverage.org/notice/8362697 https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/5089037 Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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pass-through card
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hello Luke, is the pass-through card usable with the Micro Desktop Housing too? If yes, I think it makes sense to mention it clearly on the crowsupply page. BTW: Are you still working on making freedombox run on the eoma68? Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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EOMA68 phoronix
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

yay! the slashdot article seems to have gone (still going) well - waaa took up my entire day responding to people, but it's resulted in a big jump from $52.5 to $55.2 and still going. now... the next person to poke a stick at would be michael larabel, he was so funny saying "awww darn it, you guys keep bugging me about that damn eoma68 thing, ahh i suppooose i'd better write an article theeeen"... if anyone feels so inclined, feel free to poke him with a stick again, point out that the discussion on his forum was huge (20 pages, 200 comments) and that i refer people to it all the time as the technical discussions on there are really valuable, so it gets _him_ some exposure for his site.... l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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Talk
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hello Luke, i watched the talk and found it very interesting and helpfull! Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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Questions
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hello Luke I have questions: Whrere is the OS which is delivered with thwe eoma68 stored? Surely one can update it and install additional software? Can I boot different OSs? Which Kernel will be delivered? I see, that you are trying the 4.7 kernel? Will it be possible to activate the 3D acceleration on the debian card? Thanks in advance. Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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storage options for EOMA68
by Nick Hardiman 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

I have to break these things down so I can get them into my neanderthal head, so my apologies if this is obvious to everyone already. Is this a reasonable summary of the storage options for EOMA68? I looked at some old photos and the EOMA-68 page, and I reckon these are the data storage options. By data storage I mean memory, disk space, or - to talk oldskool - any input/output device. EOMA68 data storage options --- 1. micro-SD card 2. USB flash drive (AKA USB stick, pen drive, external NAND) 3. internal NAND 4. mechanical hard disk 5. Solid State Disk file transfer speeds -- 1 is the slowest, 5 is the fastest. If you want to run something that thrashes the storage, like an e-mail server, stick the files on a disk. data storage capacity -- 1 is the smallest, and 5 the biggest. Using a micro-SD card is roughly the same as using as a small cloud server - enough space to store the OS, a bunch of applications, and have some left over. If you want to run something that chomps through storage, like a database server, stick the files on a disk. sockets for attaching another mass storage device -- USB2 There's a micro-USB socket on one side of the board, and another USB interface via the PCMCIA socket (or whatever you call the big pin connector housing). If you want to connect your Edison Cylinder Phonograph to your EOMA68 card, USB it up first. SD/MMC beside the USB socket SATA III via the PCMCIA socket I just realized I’ve been dropping the hyphen from EOMA-68. Oops. links -- old photos http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/ EOMA-68 page http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68

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EOMA68 printing and gimp and libreoffice videos
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/2318 here y'go wolfgang --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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cedrus 1080p on A20 working perfectly
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

even better, it's been added within a couple of hours to parabola! https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/commit/?id=fb03f508cc4674e6b310410929e… video of the video out shortly... eh how does that work? ;) --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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EOMA-68 laptop Keyboard support improvement pushed
by Albert ARIBAUD 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi all, I have gone ahead and pushed my latest round of improvements for keyboard support in the EOMA-68 laptop EC firmware. The new feature is support for modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt, GUI). Previously, these were sent as key codes, now they are sent within the modifier. For those to whom this is pure gibberish, it basically means that now "shift-a" *will* show as "A" (unless you've hit the Caps Lock key, of course, in which case "shift-A" will show as "a"), Alt-tab *will* cycle through your apps "Ctrl-C" *will* break that running process in your console, etc. Basically, the keyboard is now as functional as any other USB keyboard (except for two keys on the AZERTY matrix which seem to differ wrt the QWERTY matrix; that's a trivial issue and precisely the kind of thing I've initially set out to find and fix). I've also made some less visible changes, mainly to optimize GPIO access (for which there is still some improvement simmering gently here). Amicalement, -- Albert.

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Another mention on the Puppy Forum.
by Christopher Havel 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Worth a look -- I don't *think* one needs a login to view the post -- could be wrong tho. If I am, I'll mirror it. Also, I don't think the poster knows about that thread I posted, either. I'll link him to it in a minute. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=916157#916157

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