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Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: glompos21 on December 29, 2005, 06:51:10 pm

Hi
   I have a c760 with no sound.I want to make a carputer(I have a p3 1Ghz,256mb ram and  80gb hdd).I want to know if i can use the screen of the c760 as the screen of the carputer ( the price of a lcd 7' is about 250$) using some vnc program and the usb cable.

Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: qx773 on December 29, 2005, 08:06:01 pm

You do not need a physical connection between the C760 running VNC client software and a PC running VNC Server software.  You can have a wireless connection between the two computers in ad hoc mode.  I have used my C760 to display a map of my present location using Street Atlas software running on a Libretto laptop computer.  The Libretto was connected to a Tripmate GPS receiver.

Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: glompos21 on December 30, 2005, 04:29:24 am

i want to use MythTv (http://www.mythtv.org/) whitch is a linux based software.What program i can use for VNC.And i want to avoid using wifi all the time.

Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: omega on December 30, 2005, 01:21:26 pm

VNC will not do full motion video as far as I know...  I suggest looking at VLC (www.videolan.org)....

Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: glompos21 on December 30, 2005, 05:00:10 pm

I want to use the c760 only for the control of the system not to see videos.I want to know if i can doit via serial cable of the zaurus and what program i will use

Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: qx773 on December 30, 2005, 11:58:44 pm

You can use keypebble as the VNC client on the Zaurus.  

I do not know what software you would need to network over the USB cable.  You could search for PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) and USB.  That might help.

Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: pgas on December 31, 2005, 01:13:39 am

have a look at this:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12058 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12058)

Title: Car Computer(carputer) Using C760
Post by: speculatrix on January 01, 2006, 09:49:28 am

You could also try gnumpg whereby all the audio stuff is done on the PC in the boot, and the Zaurus uses its web browser to control the audio.

Use juk (kde multimedia player) and control it from the Z over vnc.

Alternatively, if the car PC runs windows, use winamp, use vnc or rdesktop.


--- edit:
oops, I meant gnump3d: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/ (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/)