[Xastir] SDR-CUBE

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:22:36PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 01:13:40PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Anyone know about them, particularly whether you could run Xastir on it?
> > 
> > This is the device that triggered my message of a few days ago about
> > "ARM systems".
> > 
> > This thing is evidently a chumby device, if that means anything to you.
> > 
> > I went by BestBuy and fingerprinted one, but I think it was busted (I
> > couldn't get past the "select a wireless network" page).  Can't really
> > hold that against it, with it being a display model.  If you look for
> > it in the store, look near the Sony Dash "personal internet viewer".
> > 
> > It did have a 5V input, so it should be fairly simple to power it in the truck.
> > 
> > The motherboard is in the base of the L-shaped case.
> > 
> > the touchscreen is the resistive type, which means a matte layer on
> > top of the screen.
> > 
> > The price is approaching impulse-buy level.  If I had time for yet
> > another project, I might have pulled the trigger.  As it stands, I'm
> > waiting for someone else to go first. :)
> 
> So far, I have seen only hacks related to getting Qt and WebKit running on it,
> and those are for embedded linux, Qt-under-X.

"NOT" Qt-under-X (i.e. Qt interacting with a framebuffer directly, not talking 
to an X server).  Gotta watch it before I hit send.

Could be fun to hack, but getting X running on it might be a pain in the
short run.

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