It Lives!
Over the past week or so I’ve been spending a decent amout of time working on the I-Opener, and at this point it is booting into Gentoo and able to run X just fine, so I’ve decided to add a section to the website about it. I’ll be posting more info in a little while, such as my XF86Config, kernel config, and whatnot, but first, I have a couple of issues to work out regarding the CueCat. The easy problem is that it doesn’t pass through the two reserved pins on it’s PS/2 connector, so the mouse on the I-Opener’s keyboard doesn’t work. I just need to rig up a bypass for those and everything should be fine.
The other problem is using the Cuecat in X. I want to run batchelor in an X terminal of some sort, but the CueCat’s output gets messed up in X. With some pointers from rgm I think I can work it out, just not sure how yet. Apparently instead of sending plain numbers for the barcode, it’s sending Alt-xxx codes, which in the console get translated to their ASCII equiv, but X doesn’t work that way. I think maybe an intercept script wrapped around batchelor will do the trick.
Also, I’ve got some pictures of the system that I’ll be uploading soon.
