[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Porting applications for Maemo

[From: sampo.nurmentaus at movial.fi]

Hi,

> To connect GPS it needs USB serial port driver. The USB GPS modules
> actually contains USB to serial chip like ftdi or prolific.
> At the moment there is not at all in real device /lib/modules.
> Most propably it needs to have module for usb chip unless it is
> compiled into kernel.

I was about to try 770 with a bluetooth GPS when I only have enough
spare time. I think that might be cool. My brother has one and works
like charm in car use. Might be nice to be used in a plane also.

I haven't yet studied how bluetooth GPS devices interact with
the host, but I would assume that they simply talk NMEA over
bluetooth serial protocol.. don't know for sure.

> Then i tried to take screenshots from real 770 device, I noticed that
> it is listening the only unix domain socket so i can't grap screen with
> external application. I also compiled xgrabsc to grab screen locally
> but xgrapsc just makes the device to boot.

You could try to use gdk_get_default_root_window, 
gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable and then save this to a file.

Haven't tried it my self but it should work AFAIK.


Br,
Sampo