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cast-fish:
Gerald....before this thread becomes a silly blog

i just wanted to say that i don't think it's screen size that is any horsepower
issue but could it be that because that tiny handheld is running "DirectFB"
which is an X11 styled compatable emulation using much less resources.....

is that how the tiny handheld manages to deal with such apps as you have seen?

i was led to believe that with ssh-X from a client, the server running X styled apps
does not actually need any X11 type stuff installed or the "X server".

In that case i can't see how these routers
won't have more than enough horsepower to even outperform that handheld thing
over ssh-X  (since mplayer is a framebuffer build and also Links browser is)

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cast-fish:
sorry i just was reading your notes again Gerald...

i had it backwards thinking...as you stated....

so the client is the one "sending" screen  info to the "server".

weird.


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gerald_clark:
Correct. The X server serves the screen for the client. Nowadays, they are usually the same machine.

cast-fish:
Yes Gerald..

i was a littel confused at first but realixe that all the APPS for the small laptop
are indeed console or framebuffer apps. (Still, mplayer is fully working from
dinasour hardware and is hardware accelerated).

LIke you say, running X on the router is too much although it could work
with 64 ram and dual core 300mhz cpu. Its in the OpenWRT repo
"X-server-common".

Those framebuffer apps for the small netbook are compiled for MIPS 300 mhz cpu
and may already work on my router here.

Otherwise....... i just have my routers build of OpenWRT with it's repo....it has
lots of console apps and "Screen" for using multiple consoles and
you could operate the router nicely as a headless computer with
that in mind.

Also these routers will do nicely with music and internet radio
and mp3 from a default OpenWRT install....since the repo has daemons
for music and such.

You see Gerald, "directFB" as used on that netbook also has a feature
called "XdirectFB" which indeed does emulate full "X" enviro and allows
X apps to be run on dinasour hardware...but the OpenWRT repo does not
include "XdirectFB"....(XdirectFB said to not work too well on that netbook...it\
needs a little more horsepower but that is infact exactly what the router DOES have).....
(double the horsepower)

i think you *can* run X apps on these dual core routers if you use that "XdirectFB"
mask.....and i think it will work if you know how to compile it for the cpu in question.
But then you would also need to compile actual GUI "x" apps like "abiword" etc
so it would be a lot of work.

I will be trying some of those framebuffer apps on my OpenWRT build in the hope
that they work so i can use the entire list of netbook apps....about 50 apps including mplayer
and links graphical browser.

TO my mind that is a nice working computer from an old router...

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roborob:
Hi,

Does anyone know where to find these at the $7 price currently?  I spent a fair amount of time on Google (etc.) and was not able to locate one.

Thanks,
Rob

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