Patch, here is my horrible drawing of my idea. Basically you take two peices of wood with a hinge pin holding them together for each side. the top will be fixed in place and the bottom will fit into a series of grooves on the wall bracket. the higher the groove the more tilt the [...]
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DPF update,I was not been able to stay up late and work anymore [...]
On the right side of the image you can see the speakers that I included on the frame. I have yet to get the sound working with Puppy however I have a few good ideas to try tonight.
Anybody know how to get gtksee to start at boot directly into slideshow mode?
Wow, what a trip took me 4 hours to do something that should be built-in in such a great distro.Most of this was spent googling for help.Here is my saga and How-to:
Step one Install or boot from live cd, puppy linux
Step two Find and install the “sshd-3.9p1.pup” or latest [...]
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Related post:http://homecncfun.blogspot.com/2008/01/digital-picture-frame-first-pics.html
First post with any real infoContinued
Yay, it doesn’t work
The guts of the laptop after I removed them from the case, I removed them from the frame for the instructional purposes
The “no-keyboard” hack
The project gets listed on Repair4Laptops.org
This post
Trial assembly
Here is the project overview that I never posted.
Primary Goals:#1 [...]
Click on the image to enlarge it, see the area I have circled? See the built-in jumper? Make your own jumper out of foil or something else thin and conductive and wedge it in the connector in place of the ribbon cable. Of course you are already setup to ssh into your picture frame aren’t [...]
Here is the laptop after all the needed parts have been removed from the case. Not shown are the microphone and speakers.Closeup of the motherboard and backlight inverter.Keyboard/Trackpoint closeupMakeshift insulator between motherboard and keyboard.Puppy linux live cd up and running with zero configuration!
The keyboard boot error along with message telling me that my bios battery is dead.
As promised here are a few more details:
First to remove the keyboard without the bios freaking out just replace the flex cable with a piece of foil that will short out the last few pins of the connector, as soon as I am home I will upload a pic of this. If you look [...]
