[Xastir] Some Pocket Chip Success
Kurt
ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jul 24 14:05:54 PDT 2016
Got Xastir going in the Pocket CHIP and discovered through a posting on the CHIP forum that a recalcitrant Window can be re-positioned with holding the "Alt" key while pressing and holding the left mouse button and scrolling around! Now I have to see if I can tame a Bluetooth problem and will be all set. I'm surprised how well Xastir looks in this small screen on a nativelinux Debian "jessie" distro. A cold boot and start of Xastir takes 2 minutes 20 seconds of the offline Cloudmade map of Illinois I have stored to come up but repaints from zooming are pretty quick zooming in and longer zooming out. I can live with it.
I didn't have the skills to put a pure Linux ROM on a Nexus device so took a chance on this and quite frankly I'm impressed withit. Sure, only a single cpu and it's not a fire breathing laptop but I certainly could run portable with this. I just have to get a B/TTNC to pair and run reliably. I was able to see a B/T GPS come up albeit a 38.4bps unit. I was able to get an NMEA 9600bpsreceiver to pair with the 38.4 but not with the 57.6 B/T GPS attached. Kurt KC9LDH
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