Gp2xbob Pdaxrom


danboid

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What about porting pdaxrom to the GP2x?

http://pdaxrom.org/

Of course, you'd have to have a breakout box, mouse and keyboard to run it and I think most people would also want a mass storage device and a USB ethernet or wlan adaptor to round it off.

pdaXrom turns your pda or console into a full Linux based x11 computing envirionment optimised for low-memory, portable devices like the Sharp Zaurus. It includes a simple, easy to use graphical package manager for instaling new progs over the net from a package feed. It has been ported to other consoles like the PS2 already and it lets you run normal linux progs like firefox, gaim, abiword, gimp, quake mame etc. etc!!

Has this already been discussed here? I suppose someone would have to write an X11 driver for the GP2X graphics co-processor to get good video performance?

I've just suggested it in on the pdaxrom forum:

http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=19170

As I say, if i could suggest any improvemts to the breakout box i'd add

composite TV output
another USB port
in black!

dan
 
You can't just use 'Linux' like that, like you're referring to one single operating system, as defined strictly by the GP2X's very limited firmware. Linux is of course just the kernel. Have you ever used Linux on a normal PC?

The linux that comes with the GP2X is nothing like the Linux that is pdaXrom. The GP2X firmware is more comparable to the Linux used on TiVo boxes whilst pdaXrom is more like a Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu or SUSE Linux OS you'd install on a PC. Can you run firefox or run a msn/yahoo client like gaim on your GP2x? Can you run a word procesor or develop software under your current linux? Can you edit graphics and listen to music and download stuff at the same time on your 2X Linux version right now? A pdaXrom port would turn your gp2x with breakout box into a full computer.
 
Linux = Linux. If you want a X Server you could get it run on GP2X and Things like OpenGL etc are in Development. But I like this Pack ;-) Looks cool. And it would help me with my Project. I build a Wifi HotSpot right now to get Internet on my GP2X with the Help of a Wifi Stick. And I need IRC and a Browser on that lil thing. I see Gaim and FireFox running in the Screenies Gallery...
 
The GP2X is quite similiar to a Z really- 200Mhz ARM cpu (can overclock to 250 reliably), 64MB RAM, SD slot, a graphics co-processor (also 200Mhz) but to make it useable with pdaxrom you'd need to get one of these

Um, yeah, that's not a graphics processor.

you should have told them it has 2 ARM 9's a 940T and a 920T.

it is NOT a graphics processor.

It IS used as the controller for the Frame processing core in the driver for the movie player in the firmware.

to reduce further confusion ignore GPH and specs pasted from GPH in other web pages.

Go HERE:

http://www.mesdigital.com/english/Products/product_mmsp2.asp

that is MagicEyes web page on their MMSP2 processor, read it and check out the 6 different processing cores built into one chip. The camera processor is not really useful to us though, so call it 5 processors.

I guess you are too new around here to notice all the fuss about the dual processors a couple months back. (edit: make that a few months back)
 
Emu&Co posted on May 1 2006 at 10:49 PM said:
Linux = Linux. If you want a X Server you could get it run on GP2X and Things like OpenGL etc are in Development. But I like this Pack ;-) Looks cool. And it would help me with my Project. I build a Wifi HotSpot right now to get Internet on my GP2X with the Help of a Wifi Stick. And I need IRC and a Browser on that lil thing. I see Gaim and FireFox running in the Screenies Gallery...

Linux is an often misused term. Don't say Linux = Linux coz that is going to cause more confusion for the Windows users- Linux = The kernel. My dads Zaurus is currently running Linux but its running Qtopia on top of the Linux kernel, which isn't X11 so I can't run 90% of linux programs. I don't know what the gp2x firmware uses for its display but I'm confident its not X11 (SDL?)

You're right though, I really don't fully understand the co-pro. Can it do MPEG decoding AND 2D video acceleration (of windows (as in lines and boxes) etc.) at the same time? Has someone wrote an X11 driver for this already?
 
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