On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:57 PM, freebirds@fastmail.fm wrote:
Congratulations on disassemblying the 500 lapdock without breaking it!
Motorola made the 100 lapdock and 500 lapdock proprietary. The 500 lapdock is the hardest to get working with a raspi.
Thanks, I took lots of pictures too. I'll have to upload them sometime. Too busy. The entire thing is in pieces on my desk and I haven't had the time to put it all together. (Basically an $80 pile of parts).
A custom HDMI script, sound script and wifi script are required to connect a raspberry pi to the 100 lapdock and 500 lapdock. The Atrix lapdock and Bionic Droid lapdock do not require a HDMI script and sound script but they may require the wifi script. Hence, I returned the 100 lapdock and puchased an Atrix lapdock. The latter I returned because it had a defective HDMI. Bill Mar of specomp.com told me the HDMI is defective in a significant percentage of Atrix lapdocks.
Could you please advise whether your 500 lapdock can operate an Improv board without scripts?
I was able to get it to boot just fine without scripts, unfortunately, I put too much flex in the HDMI cable connector (taking it apart), and haven't had a chance to make a new one, and thusly, only had about 15 minutes of testing before breaking it.. Although when the EOMA68 was install with Android, the screen would display briefly, then shut off. I had not actually read any of the hardware notes for the rPI, I just saw it and bought it with the intent to hack it.