--- Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i saw your web site was encouraging people to suggest ideas for > xfree86, and i figured, what the heck :) > > i have an XDA-2 phone and have just recently managed to get the > touchscreen driver working (sort-of) and also managed to get > a basic framebuffer running. > > xtiny-fbdev works absolutely fine. > > anyway, i would like to be able to make use of the device to make > a demonstration / talk, and to use it as part _of_ the talk. > it occurred to me how i might achieve that, with the limited success > so far. > > the idea is to use the XDA-2 touchscreen as a keyboard / mouse driver > for another x-server. > > ... radical, huh ? :) > > in principle it's quite simple: run X on the XDA-2, run a small > keyboard program on it which communicates over Bluetooth to > _another_ X server on a machine running an overhead projector > screen. > > in this way, i can walk around, i can use the XDA-2 to give > the presentation, i can type on the mini-keyboard on the XDA-2 > screen. > > in other words, the XDA-2 becomes like the new Logitech bluetooth > keyboards that you can now buy for £200 in PC-World: for your £200 > you get three devices - a full-sized bluetooth keyboard; a > bluetooth mouse; a number-pad bluetooth keyboard with a 2-line > LCD display. > > alternatively, you spend your £200 on an XDA-2, download linux, > download some x-proxy-drivers and you get a phone thrown in as > well, which is something a logitech bluetooth keyboard don't do :) > > > in implementation terms, it's a kind-of extension of the VNC and > rdesktop principle. > > the difference is that [some new?] x-windows program _generates_ > x-events which need, somehow, to be treated as an Input device to a > second x-windows server, but there is no requirement to forward the > Screen events from the second x-windows server _back_ to the > x-windows program running on the first x-server. > > i believe that, when it is put like that, there probably already > exists some software (i recall seeing something like the xvfb > package under debian? no, that's the virtual framebuffer one - i > think i mean Xnest) which is typically used for testing purposes > that could be adapted to do the job i describe. > > i don't really know - i'm just throwing in ideas, see what sticks :) > > l. > >
you could run Alan's xf4vnc (http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/)on the remote server and then run the vnc client on your pda. That way your PDA can control the remote desktop. Alex __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
