I made a quick list of things an average user is used to have on a laptop, that aren't on the eoma68 laptop housing. Maybe we could later add it to the user wiki, along with ways to replace them with software when it's possible ? (for example how the disks IO LED can be shown on screen, along with the caps lock and num lock status,...)

- Main power status: ON/OFF/suspended (to know whether the card has been completely shutdown or not)
- Battery status: charging/discharging/low power
- Disk IO LED: blinking when the disk/sd card is being read/written to
- Num lock, caps lock and scroll lock status LEDs: ON/OFF

- Wireless and/or bluetooth status LED: ON/OFF (some USB adapters do have a led but they won't be visible if they are plugged in the internal USB)

By the way I have kind of a dumb question and I guess it has already been answered, but I did not find the answer on the mailing list: is there a power button or a switch on the laptop housing and if not, how do you power it on/off ? does it boot up by inserting the computer card into the housing ?

2016-08-27 22:01 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>:

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On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Alexander .S.T. Ross
<maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me> wrote:
> On 27/08/16 20:48, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> ... manual switch.... run it direct off the battery instead of any
>> electronics... yeah doable.
>
> what about the backlight switch so when the lid is closed its off, could
> that be piggy backed/tapped into?

backlight switch? what backlight switch! hmmm... i think i forgot
to do one of those... oops!

l.

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