New kid on the block
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:28 am
Hello everyone, and a shout-out to my two (at least) fellow hams here.
I've been shoehorning Linux onto small tablets for a while - a masochist's hobby, but there it is! After trying to get something to run on a PenCentra 130, the DT366 seems like a dream, with its capability to boot from USB and its relatively standard peripherals.
I have managed to put new LIon cells into the unit; Walmart was liquidating a $50 digital picture frame (with rechargable LIon cell) for $7, I bought four and was pleased to see they were slim enough to fit into the DT366. I paralleled 2, then used two of those paralleled units in series to bring the voltage up to 7.4 volts. Battery life is about 1.5 hours. The cells had on-board thermostats and charging circuitry. I just ran the red wire (from the original DT battery) to plus, the black to minus, and the yellow wire to ground via a 100K resistor (this makes the charging lights work).
I'm using Debian, and it's all working fine except for the touchscreen, which does respond but has its Y axis reversed (when I move the stylus up, the mouse goes down.) I've included "SwapY" "1" in my xorg.conf under the penmount 'Input Device' section, but it seems to have no effect. Anyone have any ideas?
A reminder to anyone who feels themselves butting up against the 520 Meg memory limit - you can easily move any partition of your Linux install 'offsite' and onto a CF card. My /home and /usr partitions are on an 8G CF card - those are the biggest. Easy instructions here:
http://www.go2linux.org/how-to-move-hom ... -partition
just remember to edit /etc/fstab and keep an empty, dummy directory with the same name on the boot drive.
A pleasure to be here.
Tsaiho
I've been shoehorning Linux onto small tablets for a while - a masochist's hobby, but there it is! After trying to get something to run on a PenCentra 130, the DT366 seems like a dream, with its capability to boot from USB and its relatively standard peripherals.
I have managed to put new LIon cells into the unit; Walmart was liquidating a $50 digital picture frame (with rechargable LIon cell) for $7, I bought four and was pleased to see they were slim enough to fit into the DT366. I paralleled 2, then used two of those paralleled units in series to bring the voltage up to 7.4 volts. Battery life is about 1.5 hours. The cells had on-board thermostats and charging circuitry. I just ran the red wire (from the original DT battery) to plus, the black to minus, and the yellow wire to ground via a 100K resistor (this makes the charging lights work).
I'm using Debian, and it's all working fine except for the touchscreen, which does respond but has its Y axis reversed (when I move the stylus up, the mouse goes down.) I've included "SwapY" "1" in my xorg.conf under the penmount 'Input Device' section, but it seems to have no effect. Anyone have any ideas?
A reminder to anyone who feels themselves butting up against the 520 Meg memory limit - you can easily move any partition of your Linux install 'offsite' and onto a CF card. My /home and /usr partitions are on an 8G CF card - those are the biggest. Easy instructions here:
http://www.go2linux.org/how-to-move-hom ... -partition
just remember to edit /etc/fstab and keep an empty, dummy directory with the same name on the boot drive.
A pleasure to be here.
Tsaiho