Thread: A few questions
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Originally Posted by dav7 View Post

Nice to know... and wow, USB->VGA! That's nice to know too


That's fine, I don't plan to write stuff for Hildon, although I *might* use it... although I might not.

How does Hildon "run"? Like a session manager? Can I killall the right processes to have apps, sidebar thingy, task manager, panel, etc, quit? Then, assuming that method works, with my N810 just running the terminal I used to killall everything, I can just run openbox from there.

Also, I might do a little porting, but mostly plan to develop my own apps. Whether they'll run for Hildon (my programming strengths are generally with PHP and bash, which have almost no working desktop frameworks available - there is PHP-GTK, but that breaks PHP's apache module here, and PHP-QT, but that won't compile here) would remain to be seen.



New tactic. Can I stuff Arch Linux inside the ROM which I'm assuming is an EEPROM, and put OS2008 on an SD? Or do you really think I should just leave it all on SD cards? If I do, how do I get stuff in and out of the N810 if I can't/don't want to use Wifi or Bluetooth?

Also, how does booting from the SD card work? Is the SD card akin to a PC's hard disks, in that the N810 will first poke its internal ROM for a valid boot block, then the SD card, etc?

Or does it just jump straight to ROM, in which is a script that picks up from there and loads from the SD card?



NDAs make sense and I won't knock those.

The GPS. Thanks for mentioning that. I was wondering if I could access that myself, thanks for clearing that up :P

But... *you don't have graphics drivers?* You mean you don't have the *sourcecode*, or are you using the VESA driver with this thing?!
Umm, probably dead thread (did you get the N810?) brought to life by an add, but...


USB -> VGA is bad right now

Hildon-Desktop is automatically brought back to life if you kill it. You have to modify the script and you can easily replace it with whatever you want, OpenBox, KDE, etc...

Booting from SD card is NOT like a computer. Im not very sure how it works, but look at Deblet for a nice Debian port.

GPS is fully accessible, don't really understand what you mean?


About the Graphics, I don't mean the sourcecode. I mean, we don't have any drivers for the built in 3D. It just sits there. The display is not using the OMAP chip, but a separate controller, making it slow AND weak. Look a liqbase for a example of clever software taking advantage of "bad" hardware.
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