Great news, I have been using the zaurus one for a while and it is very impressive. I see you did a fancy mode for the zaurus,
do the buttons work on it like the zaurus? I will have to install this asap. I just wish I had more space on the ipaq I am
already at 89%.
Pete Borders
On 17 Feb 2002 at 17:20, pierre@lineo.com wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> After many requests for an iPAQ port of the Zaurus framebuffer
> VNC server, I finally took some time and did it.
>
> The release is here :
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zaurus/ipaq-fbvncserver_0.0.9-9_arm.ipk
>
> and it looks like this :
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zaurus/iPAQ_over_VNC2.jpg
>
> (if you know a good home for it by the way, I'd be happy to
> move it out of the Zaurus archive).
>
> This VNC server is a low-level raw framebuffer server : it
> basically grabs the content of the framebuffer periodically,
> looks for changes, and send those changes to the remote VNC
> clients. The clients can also send it keystroke events and
> mouse pointer events, and in turn the server will converted
> them into sequences of keyboard scancodes and touchscreen
> events and send them to whatever environment happens to be
> running.
>
> In short, it allows you to remote-control your iPAQ, quite
> accurately, regardless of whether you use Qtopia, Opie,
> X11 or the raw framebuffer.
>
> The polling method used to capture the content of the
> framebuffer allows the server to be environment-agnostic,
> but the flip-side is that the server has to run constantly
> and use up some CPU. To alleviate the problem, all the speed
> critical sections of the server are coded in optimized
> assembler, so that even when the server is running, the
> slowdown is barely perceptible. It works really well with
> the Zaurus, and it seems to work just as well with the iPAQ,
> if not better.
>
> I don't actually own an iPAQ, someone lent one to me for
> the weekend to do the port, so I wasn't sure what the kosher
> way of adding icons in the various X environments was, therefore
> I decided to leave that job to the user (i.e. under X, you'll
> have to start the server by hand or add icons yourself). The
> package does provide basic Opie/Qtopia icons and scripts
> however.
>
> There are detailed instructions on how to setup and use the
> server here :
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zaurus/README.1ST
>
> Again, I tried to make this as accurate as I could without
> knowing much about Familiar. I believe most of it is self-
> explanatory though.
>
> If you have any trouble with it, please let me know.
>
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Received on Sun Feb 17 17:02:08 2002
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