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NFS mounts:
From 'jbarr', on:
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=whatever&Post=1945
Next, i tried to mount the NFS share on the iOpener, but I couldn't get it
to work. Then I remembered that if you go into the web-based configuration,
you can open a root terminal window. When I ran the mount command here, it
worked just fine! I did a cd to the mount point and voila! there were the
songs.
Finally, I openerd XMMS and added the directory to the play list. Works
like a charm!!!
Next challenge: How to automate this step so that the next time I boot, I
don't have to manually mount. I will try to edit fstab to see if that will
work.
OK, I think I got it. I added the following lines to the "profile" file in
the /tmp/config directory:
mkdir /tmp/music
mount -o wsize=1024,rsize=2048 192.168.1.100:/m /tmp/music
and then saved the storage space throught the web-based configuration
screen. A reboot auto-mounted the share and now when I bring up XMMS and
click on "+ dir", it auto-adds all the files! Very cool!
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TIPS:
If you want to get to a root console just type control-alt-F1
control-alt-F2 to go back to :0
Want vnc on a separate console?
set your remote PC display resolution to 800x600 and run winvnc app mode on your PC
now at the iopener type:
control-alt-F1
X :1 &
export DISPLAY=:1
vncviewer -fullscreen 192.168.1.100 (or whatever IP address your PC is)
control-alt-F3 (to switch to vnc console)
control-alt-F2 (to switch back to midori console)
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Images
Ingo,
Can you add the xli (x load image) binary to the next M4I distribution?
I tested the binary from here and it works on the iopener with M4I:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.1/full-names/i386/xli-1.16-55.i386.rpm
(but any xli version that works would also be fine).
This allows you to display, stretch, and rotate .jpg or .gif images onto the
X root console. So, a simple script using wget and xli can turn the
iopener into a landscape or portrait slideshow picture frame.
example:
wget -O /tmp/image.gif http://midori.transmeta.com/manual/midori_logo_full.gif
xli -onroot -fillscreen -rotate 90 /tmp/image.gif
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Here is some fun stuff to play with using Midori on the iopener (unsupported examples)
Hubble image slide show (or make your own slideshow, just change filelist)
cd /tmp
wget http://www.hunkler.com/mark/iopener/midori/hubble_slideshow.tar | tar xvf -
./hubble
control-alt-f3 to switch to console :1
control-alt-f2 to switch to console :0
control-c in xterm to kill script
Play xmame games
cd /tmp
wget http://www.hunkler.com/mark/iopener/midori/mame.tar.gz | gunzip -c | tar xvf -
./xmame -rompath . -scale 2 mspacman
press "3" to insert a coin
press "1" to start single player game
(sound is only supported on a v1 iopener right now using M4I 0.093)
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to turn off the backlight:
xset dpms force off
(set BIOS Video Off mode to Doze)