Re: Goooooood news, touch screen works !

Hi!

First of all... try to correct your date, it's some days wrong ;)

There are some pda's running natively linux, and others with a port, you
can go to the wiki of http://familiar.handhelds.org to see which ones
are working.

Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> Sounds good! I've ben watching this list to see how progress is going toward getting linux running on the Dell.
>
> Is linux running on any pda? If so, which one/ones? If so, perhaps we could look at getting speakup patched into a kernel on a different pda, one with enough cpu power to do the speech synthesis.
>
> thanks again for your interest.
>
> --terry
>
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:57:55AM +0100, Angel Sánchez Morales wrote:
>
>>Oh, it seems more difficult to put this on the pda :/
>>Well, once we have a working environment on the pda we can try to
>>install it and patch the kernel and try various things to make it
>>work.
>>
>>On 12/30/05, Terry D. Cudney <terry.cudney_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Angel,
>>>
>>> thanks for your reply...
>>>
>>> In fact, speakup is a set of kernel patches that you must apply to the kernel source before compiling for your machine. there are a few pre-compiled kernels with speakup already patched in, but it's best to do a custom configuration.
>>>
>>> Until recently, speakup depended on a hardware speech synthesizer connected to the serial port. Now there is software speech available using festival (or flite (festival lite) which are GPL'ed and software dectalk which is a binary only commercial tts (text to speech) engine that has been interfaced to the speakup code
>>>
>>> there is an intermediary piece of GPL'ed software called speech dispatcher that gives a more device independent interface to the driver of the tts device whether that is hardware or software speech.
>>>
>>> I fear the problems are:
>>>
>>> 1) binary-only Software Dectalk is out of the question for another architecture, it's x86 specific. (Although, I understand that there is a Windows Mobile version of software Dectalk from Fonix running on the Dell pda). Being commercial, proprietary the licensing of this software is not appealing.
>>>
>>> 2) festival and flite are quite large and cpu intensive, I don't know how well a pda would handle the task. I'd like to think it would do OK, but don't really understand the connections betwen the audio hardware/subsystem and the tts engine.
>>>
>>> Speakup, is just the facility to allow control of what is spoken from the text console. Check out the speakup site at www.linux-speakup.org. Maybe you can have more insight as to the possibilities there.
>>>
>>> thanks for your time and interest in responding to my query.
>>>
>>> --terry
>>>
>>>On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Angel Sánchez Morales wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi!
>>>>
>>>>The cool thing about linux is that you only need to recompile the source
>>>>for executing any app in other hardware, well... the good thing about
>>>>linux is that you can compile it for youself :p
>>>>
>>>>So at first if it works on your desktop it should work on the pda if
>>>>there isn't any machine specific code on the source.
>>>>
>>>>If you have problems running it you can always try to contact the
>>>>developer of the app you need.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Terry D. Cudney wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is good news! Going in the right direction...
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an Axiom x50 with Humanware's Maestro/Trekker software
>>>>> running on WM 2003 to give voice output since I am blind. I use
>>>>> linux with speakup on my desktop/laptop machines and would love to
>>>>> have linux with speech output (preferably speakup) on the Dell.
>>>>> Does anyone have any idea of the feasibility of this? I figure if
>>>>> speech output can be done under WM2003, it should be possible and
>>>>> better under linux... I suspect that drivers for the speech tts and
>>>>> audio chips will be the hurdle?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any feedback/observations in this regard. Is anyone, in
>>>>> fact looking at this area at present?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks in advance,
>>>>>
>>>>> --terry
>>>>>
>>>>>On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:29:32PM +0800, Fisherss wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Exactly boot from main memory and load graphic user interface from SD
>>>>>>card with touch screen support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jorge Schrauwen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ok I've been on vacation for the last 2 weeks...
>>>>>>>so from quickly reading over this...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You manged to get linux to boot from SD, with a screen driver with
>>>>>>>touchpad support?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On 1/1/06, Don McMorris <don.mcmorris_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I've been quietly monitoring the list, hoping to one day put Linux on
>>>>>>>>my Axim X50v. I'm not going to do it until a full build is available,
>>>>>>>>and fairly trivial to install (IE: no custom drivers, etc.).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I write today to encourage you to keep up the good work!
>>>>>>>>Unfortunately, I lack sufficient knowlege to contribute code, but I'll
>>>>>>>>be in the bleachers cheerin' you on1
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Goooooooooo Axim!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Keep up the good work, everybody!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>--Don
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On 12/31/05, jp <insanelysick1_at_tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Yeah its gona be so much better than this windows mobile
>>>>>>>>>crap.nespecially windows mobile 5.
>>>>>>>>>how far along is usb networking?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>rada b. wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Wow guys thats awesome! I cant wait to have linux on my Axim
>>>>>>>>>>:-D:-D:-D:-D!!!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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