Accidentally i discoverd wxGlade being installed on my EeePc. Since i knew wx is some kind of toolkit for creating gui’s i tested it. And… wow!
Its great to create some kind of raw mask for your application. Even it threw some errors first (had to correct some mistakes in the generated Perl code) it creates quite clean code.
I will use it for my Jukebox Project, in which i made a major step forward today: Sound works. Okay, not good, i have to dump mpg123 stdout to /dev/dsp via pipe, anything else doesnt work, but anyway, i have sound (Alice Cooper was the first song 
)
Another thing: I had to search like hours for a useful documentation for wxperl. Maybe useful for others: wxWidgets Doc is useful even for wxperl.
Ahh, and I set up a SVN Repo today. I will post further information if some useful software finds its way to it.
I spend my weekend doing several things:
- Chilling with some pals (and a PS³ and a subwoofer greater than my 22″ lcd)
- Watching Scrubs (Season 1 to 5)
- Setting up Debian on a battery-damaged non USB bootable non cdrom drive Fujitsu Biblo B112 Lifebook
Since it was just capable of booting from floppy i had to use the debian floppies. After like 2-3 Hours with errors like (attention: keyword!) pcmcia: unknown symbol release_firmware etc. I switched from Debian Lenny Install Floppies to Etch. And hooray, it works!
But its annoying to do a dist-upgrade to lenny with a 10mbit nic, a 233mhz cpu and 160Megs of stupid slow SDRAM. Anyway, it runs with Fluxbox.
The touchscreen (its like the grandfather of a hybride of the GeCube Genie Senior and my EeePC) is hard to configure, if anyone knows a good calibration gui, please tell me 
So, I plan to use it as a jukebox for parties. Therefore I need the following:
- A way to disable gui stuff for closing windows, maximising them, almost everything.
- An audioplayer which has the following features:
- Comfortable Song Index which can be used only with touchscreen
- Queueing songs in a queue
- A Perl API? (That would be… greatest)
- Lightweight
If you have any idea to solve my issues, please drop me a comment.
Today, I threw Ubuntu of my (big, clobby, stupid, nonbatteried, nonEee) laptop and installed my Debian Lenny.
Why? Because Ubuntu sucks. Why? Because its slow. And I thought:
Now that you got a local apt mirror… why not use it on all linux machines?
Install was quite easy. Kernel 2.6.24 runs fine aswell. Compiz doesnt, nor does screensaver. But thats nothing I hadnt have with ubuntu.
Maybe I’ll retry Ubuntu 8. But never 7.10 again.
Okay, i just spent like 3 hours on changing the stupid window decoration on compiz.
I use gtk-window-decorator, the whole gconf stuff was new to me and emerald isnt in official repos atm
Anyway, i just installed gnome-themes and restarted gtk-window-decorator.
And now i have a nice desktop. Human/Clearlooks is just a nice theme.
So with some research (and help from some guys @ #eeepc) I found digi-key selling those things for germany.
I will have to pay:
- 8€ for Processing my order
- 18€ for delivery
- 6€ for the rcpt thing (10x)
- 2€ for the header thing (10x)
Thats a total of 34€ for just 20 tiny little pieces of plastic. Great. I will think about that.
I plan to do some modifications to my EeePC, including internal flash stick, bluetooth and (maybe) a touchpanel. Since i dont like soldering on the mainboard i looked for other ways to integrate those usb gadgets.
The solution:
The webcam uses USB and I (and some others) think, that the feature of disabling it (echo 0 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera) disables the whole usb port, so this is the perfect way to disable your gadgets when you want to save some energy.
I already bought a small usb hub and the Hama Nano Bluetooth Stick, so I’m quite ready to go.
But theres one thing left, maybe someone can help me. I would like not to cut the cable to the camera, so I am looking for the same jack the camera chip has so i can solder it on the usb hub instead of that MiniUSB Port. Addiitonal i would need the same connector which is on the cable to the camera for connecting the camera back to the usb hub.
Today i opened the display chassis and made some photos of this jack (which, whats confusing me, has a 5wire jack, but just 4 (the usual usb’s) cables connected). Camera model is eMPIA 2760. There’s no datasheet for this on eMPIA’s official website.
Update: parag0n from #eeepc (freenode) says its a JST SR Jack. Even he says its a 04 i believe its a 05 since those for the camera are definitely 5wires. So the next thing is to find a reseller selling those.
Anyway, thank you for your help, maybe this informations can help others modding their EeePC
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