well the good thing about the laptop is that it runs on batteries and it is also 12V.. some higher unfortunately.. I had made a small ciruit so that when the car switched off it trigger a UPS type effect and made the server shutdown... when the power came back on the machine would boot up.. The only drawback was waiting for the machine to be ready...
I never installed it coz I had to stuff around with the keyboard and lengths of wire for a keypad to control it and we have people around my area who like looking into cars... so I left it and used the laptop for something else.. thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Saenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 3:13 PM To: George Vieira Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] In Car MP3 Players Yeah I just want to mount the sustem in my boot so it will sit next to my amp. > I ran a laptop on Linux and it had a MP3 playa (forgot which).. I used > the > keyboard as the screen was broken hence the reason for the idea.. no > visual > but I have sound... > > I didn't end up using it in the car though as I started to fear the > thieves > in the area... ;-)) > > thanks, > George Vieira > Systems Manager > Citadel Computer Systems P/L > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Saenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 2:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] In Car MP3 Players > > > Hi all, > > I think I have a little too much time on my hands. :) > I am considering the idea of building my own Linux > in car Mp3 player. Before I do this I would like to > find out if I can get some of the parts in Oz. > Also I would appreciate it if anyone could point me in > the right direction for the following > A touch screen that is big enuf to fit into the dash, > and runs X nicely. > Power Transformer from 12 volts to computer voltage > me thinks it's 5.5 volts or 3.5 ( I think that is only > CPU.) > > Thanks > > Kevin > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Saenz Security Analyst mobile: +61418455661 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
