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Old 06-25-2009, 03:55 PM   #26
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Netherlands
Device: iRex DR1000S
Let me first start with a warning: DO NOT USE THIS (unless you know what you are doing).

I managed to get some type of terminal working, but it should only be used by experts and people with a lot of patience and willing to do extra actions to get anything to display. I worked long enough on this stuff now and I am not making much progress anymore, so I publish it here.

Some information on the content of the zip file.

Programs\_rxvt contains a port of rxvt and mc.
BUT: there is no keyboard! It can be usefull when installing newly ported programs on the DR to figure out what is wrong (I discovered that the qemu has libncurses installed and the DR, not using rxvt). See the .desktop files in Programs/ for some examples.
Refreshes are REALLY BAD, pressing cursor buttons or right/left middle button sometimes has a positive effect on the refresh. Its use is very limited.
(I might have installed an extra library on my DR to get it working, but I am not sure anymore, please let me know if it does not run. You can first try on the qemu ofcourse.)

Programs/_install contains the ipkg files for libncurses and libvte and some helper files.

Programs/Install contains the .desktop files to install libncurses and libvte. I had a lot of problems installing vte this way, the 'please wait' pop-up would show and not disappear anymore, so I had to reset. So maybe you should install vte using the rxvt-vte.desktop file. I also tried that and that seemed to work better.

When you start vte and start typing with your stylus, you will only see some black squares, pressing enter will give some white-space. If you however use the scrollbar to scoll, you will see some text appearing...

That is it... it might be usefull if porting programs to the DR, for all others: DO NOT USE THIS

If anyone is interested in the changes I made, please let me know, maybe someone want to start from here...
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