Ask and you shall receive. I just put up a blog post on my website.
http://www.thesourceshow.org/node/120
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Aaron Newcomb <anewcomb2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well the keyboard cam in today and I am writing this email with it
>> now. It took me about 30 minutes to get working. You must download the
>> binary tarball at
>> http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#kbdd
>>
>> Then extract it, edit the btkbd.conf file, make the files executable,
>> put the keyboard in discover mode then run btkbd. After that the
>> keyboard should work. I am running this on Diablo. The script requires
>> you to be root which is one drawback.
>>
>> Response seems pretty good. The "/" key is in a wierd place though. I
>> can't comment on battery life yet. Let me knw if you have more
>> questions.
>
> Excellent!. The only question that comes to mind is if all the
> software couldn't be just packaged into a nice .deb for easy
> installation by anyone without dropping to a shell.
>
> (Not that I care, but others aren't so fond of the CLI)
>
> Thanks for the reporting Aaron!. I hope I'm not bugging you but can
> you take a pic of the extended keyboard next to the N800 so I could
> see its relative size? (If you need web storage you could use
> http://pages.google.com while logged in to your GMail account, then
> upload the jpg there and get its URL).
>
> FC
>
Aaron Newcomb wrote:
> The "/" key is in a wierd place though.
Also the keymap is currently done only for ipaq bt foldable so check
differences for Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Fn here
http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/Shasta-ipaqFoldable.jpg
Aaron Newcomb
http://www.thesourceshow.org/node/120
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Aaron Newcomb <anewcomb2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well the keyboard cam in today and I am writing this email with it
>> now. It took me about 30 minutes to get working. You must download the
>> binary tarball at
>> http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#kbdd
>>
>> Then extract it, edit the btkbd.conf file, make the files executable,
>> put the keyboard in discover mode then run btkbd. After that the
>> keyboard should work. I am running this on Diablo. The script requires
>> you to be root which is one drawback.
>>
>> Response seems pretty good. The "/" key is in a wierd place though. I
>> can't comment on battery life yet. Let me knw if you have more
>> questions.
>
> Excellent!. The only question that comes to mind is if all the
> software couldn't be just packaged into a nice .deb for easy
> installation by anyone without dropping to a shell.
>
> (Not that I care, but others aren't so fond of the CLI)
>
> Thanks for the reporting Aaron!. I hope I'm not bugging you but can
> you take a pic of the extended keyboard next to the N800 so I could
> see its relative size? (If you need web storage you could use
> http://pages.google.com while logged in to your GMail account, then
> upload the jpg there and get its URL).
>
> FC
>
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Thanks,
Aaron Newcomb
http://www.thesourceshow.org
http://www.opennewsshow.org