i have a couple old dell laptops available from work to turn into digital picture frames, and i was wondering if anyone has done the same, using LEAF as the OS. this would involve adding some kind of video drivers, and removing some of the modules like shorewall from the installation. i believe LEAF would be a perfect platform for this, as almost all the components are already there, and it's small with low overhead.
for those not familiar with the idea, you disassemble an old laptop, but keep it operable, and mount it in a picture frame. you then boot into some OS and display digital pictures on it. this is an aggregate site with a number of links to people's projects http://repair4laptop.org/notebook_picture_frame.html my goal is to have one of these dell latitude CPi's use an 802.11b/g link to a samba share for retrieving pictures, and to ultimately have a webserver on the picture frame to control what picture albums are displayed (think winamp play lists but for pictures.) replace the hard drive with an laptop ide to CF adapter and you have an almost silent machine (there is a fan, but it doesn't run at all times.) if you leave the speakers intact or connect some external ones, you could also add audio email notification, caller-id announcement, even audio streaming to the frame. i was planning to use something like zgv or feh for the slideshow app. what would it take to add/create a module to enable simple VGA modes (no need for an xserver) to LEAF?? has anyone already done this?? regards, david ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
