[Xastir] Olimex A13

[Ray Wells]

I recently bought an Olimex A13 SBC as a possible replacement for the 
RPi, anticipating speed advantages from the 1GHz processor and 512MB 
RAM. The A13 has more I/O options than the RPi - vga video, audio in and 
out, three external and one internal USB plus lots of GPIO and such. It 
also runs from a 12v supply. The one downside of the A13 is the lack of 
on-board ethernet but a $9.00 usb dongle fixed that shortcoming. I 
bought the A13 without the internal wifi module and have installed 
vanilla Debian 7.0 on the 8GB micro SD card.

Kernel ax25 was compiled without any issues. I struck a couple of 
dependency issues compiling xastir but all were resolved - graphicsmagic 
instead of imagemagic and compile geotiff and gdal from sources. Xastir 
is now working really well with raster maps, well enough that I'm 
contemplating an Olimex 7" LCD touch screen with a view to a mobile 
installation of xastir.

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