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** Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age) | ** Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age) | ||
** Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu | ** Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu | ||
+ | ** According to [http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/edwin/laptops/Dell/LATITUDE/C540-640.PDF This Document] the Docking Station pin for Turning on the laptop is pin #17, and one of the Ground pins is pin #10. Should be able to put an external switch across these two to make the unit power up. | ||
** LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it. | ** LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it. | ||
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Revision as of 16:50, 20 November 2008
Online Reources
- Guide to using Damn Small Linux for this
- This project has the idea I"m looking for, keep it in "laptop" form as much as possible to make future enhancements easier.
Physical Resources
- Ratmandu is donating a Latitude C640 with no optical drive, keyboard, or RAM
- Purchased 128MB of RAM from ebay for ~$8
- Switched stick I purchased for an extra 256MB stick that Strages had
- Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age)
- Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu
- According to This Document the Docking Station pin for Turning on the laptop is pin #17, and one of the Ground pins is pin #10. Should be able to put an external switch across these two to make the unit power up.
- LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it.
Soft Resources
- Have installe Ubuntu via PXE boot
- Installed ubuntu-desktop
- Installed flickrfs
- created flickr account
- flickerfs does not need a username/password combination to access flickr, it uses some kind of authentication key. It works, I don't need to understand it.
- installed feh at brimstone's recommendation, some sort of screen saver
- command: feh -F -D 1 .
- This commend starts a slideshow through the directory
- brimstome recommended rsyncing the directory to somewhere as it appeared to be pulling the images from flickr each time rather than storing them locally?
- flickerfs allows you to create a directory in the public tags directory to pull in photos of that tag. it uses the directory name as the tag
- command: feh -F -D 1 .