[9fans] 9π and Motorola lapdock?

[9fans] 9π and Motorola lapdock?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

I've ordered a motorola lapdock and the proper usb/micro-usb and
hdmi/micro-hdmi cables needed to connect it to RPi; while i'm waiting,
i am wondering if anyone has tried 9π with a lapdock already?

it appears that the RPi model B version 2 can be powered from one of
the two usb's. that makes it easy to power and supply the keyboard and
mouse via one usb to RPi, and the display is obviously via the hdmi.
aside from old laptops laying around, it might be the cheapest 9
terminal setup.

-Skip

Re: [9fans] 9π and Motorola lapdock?

[Bakul Shah]

It has a bunch of issues.
- touchpad doesn't work. Back in December With Richard's help I tried debugging but didn't get far before running out of time.
- some of the function keys have weird side effects
- on reboot the kbd driver gets confused. You have to power cycle by closing/reopening atrix's lid.
- so now I use an external wireless mouse and find the kbd can get in a mode where further chars are not accepted until you wiggle the mouse.
- keys are a bit close so I mistype a lot.
Due to other projects I have not gotten back to this + I am pretty clueless about USB & will need Richard's help.

Still, it is useful. Yesterday I took it to the local "raspberry jam" and showed off 9pi to a few people including Eben Upton (the RPi inventor). But OSes are not exciting to most people. We need applications!