trying to copy with dd from /dev/urandom to the flash card it takes 4 seconds, if there is no framebuffer activity. If just doing some resizes during the copy, the times are in range of 15 to 30 seconds.
Well, better said of yesterday night. Before going to bed, I found on one of the technology RSS’s of my PDA the news about free version of Nomachine’s nx technology. I could not resist to give it a try. For the simple reason that often I have to login to remote windows clients, or xwindows and it is really frustrating to work with slow moving gui etc. The NX protocol solved it. Working on the remote machine is almost like working on a local machine. Even opening pdf, or bitmap is almost spontaneous. Installation of both the client and server is straightforward, download the packages and give it a try. I wonder when there will be a windows mobile version available.
some interesting pages for windows mobile hackers:
* http://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/projects/xda/wince (and parent folders) includes boost wince patch,
looking for an sdl implementation for windows mobile I discovered the site http://scummvm.org. Well, I jumped to that site from another one, that seems to have hosted the original port of sdl: http://arisme.free.fr/ports/SDL.php
This opens new doors in porting interesting applications to windows mobile using cegcc
I just realized that the original software or drivers are not needed for windows mobile in order to connect the iGo keyboard. Simply press ctrl Fn(left) Fn(right), check if the led is on, then go to the Settings/Connections/Bluetooth/Add new device… The mobile device should see the keyboard after few seconds. Click on the listed device, enter a pin, then enter the same pin on the keyboard (take care on shift/Fn etc.), the connection should be made.
The iGo also works perfectly on openmoko…
I wrote a test application that creates random squares directly with random colors directly on framebuffer. It turns out that the the squares are rendered faster on the framebuffer of glofiish (gnufiish) than on openmoko. The ratio is somewhere around 7/10.
Fennec is another unusable derivate of firefox, that belongs to the most unusable software caterogy on windows mobile… I trieod other alfa, beta, gamma versions of browser, but this is the most unusable…
I am excited about the idea to create a WINE like compatibility layer, eventually port WINE in order to be able to run windows mobile applications on windows. To make things even faster, I would build the GUI abstraction on top of kernel fbui. I think running fbui does not exclude running xwindows on the top of the same framebuffer, as long as they share it well…
I managed to compile a kernel with the fbui patches. I had to make some changes in some files to adapt the patches. Unfortunately did not have too much time to test. I am quite courious how the kernel based user interface would behave on openmko… To be updated