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Quote from: mithrandirHas already someone tried to use a 3rd party USB3 hub? Does ist work?
If you mean a USB-C hub, I've just plugged one in that has 3 USB-A ports and an ethernet port. I plugged a mouse in and the mouse works and I get an IP address on the ethernet port. It's a pretty generic no-name hub.
snipThese high endurance cards are designed for video recording, i.e. dashcams. Some reported these cards to last longer, when using as system disk for raspberrys. However, I have not found any reliable information on this. Originally I used a Sandisk class 10 in my banana pi router running debian, which broke after aproximately half a year (logging, etc). After I replaced it with one of these the system works without problems for longer than a year. So if it does not make a huge difference in speed it might make sense to use one of these to avoid it getting broken due to heavy use.
Entirely depends what you want the PDA to do. Not sure what you mean by "high endurance" as this describes nothing technical!
If you want 4K video (little point on a small screen) then opt for 90MB/s
If you simply want to dump Docs/PDFs then anything will do
For myself, I bought a Samsung Evo Plus (3) rated 128Gb card because I love high definition audio (via headphones socket)
Quote from: RosieI think the process I need to follow would be something like:Though I more than happy to have any wrongthinks pointed out to me.
- Non-destructively repartition the internal flash to make some space,
- Install a bootloader that allows me to choose what to boot, and
- Install a Linux flavour of my choice.
My preferred order if it can be done would be to do it ALL on the Gemini without ever having to include another computer:
1. Download a 'Planet Computers Gemini Linux Installer for Android' app from Google Play.
2. Open PCGLIA app and be presented an option to create a partition on and install Debian Linux to a user supplied microSDXC card.
3. Boot Debian Linux from the microSDXC card.
4. Download a 'Planet Computers Gemini Android Installer for Linux' app from a Planet Computers signed repository.
5. Open PCGAIL app and be presented an option to back up the existing Android software - and do so.
6. Using the PCGAIL app, be presented an option to repartition the eMMC drive.
7. Using the PCGAIL app, be presented an option to copy the Android backup from 5 one of the new partitions.
8. Using the PCGAIL app, be presented an option to install Linux to a partition on the eMMC from a .ISO file downloaded to the microSDXC.
The Gemini has eMMC, microSDXC and dual USB type C ports. There should be no need to use a second computer to image it. To require a Windows computer to install an OS on an Android/Linux device is very very sad.
Quote from: GrenchI want a Linux mouse driver to use the Gemini's touchscreen panel as a touchpad that just happens to physically be on top of a screen. At that point we can have appropriate desktop-like control over the mouse pointer on the device itself.
Yes, applications should be optimized to the keyboard wherever possible. BUT - we don't have to give up completely on having control over the mouse pointer.
I used xf86-input-multitouch (http://bitmath.org/code/multitouch/) instead of the usual xf86-input-evdev driver for a project of mine, which was converting an LG F3Q qwerty smartphone to run pure armhf Linux, no Android required. I use the touchscreen as a touchpad. I can double-tap it for a left click, and I remapped the cap keys to operate as mouse buttons (including middle and right buttons). This gives true traditional X mouse control, right down to pasting selected text with the middle mouse button, all on a tiny 4" smartphone. I haven't backed the Gemini, but it should be possible to do the same on it.
