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Topic: Setup a laptop as a "picture frame", Looking for instructions on how to setup

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roberts

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Posted: Dec. 21 2006,20:14

A while back, I recall this subject was popular.
The feh image viewer was used, but a remaster was done.

I have just posted a feh.unc in the unc section of the repository, so a remaster should not have to be done.

Also, apparently, feh can fetch and display images via an ftp://

You may want to consider feh.unc

beakmyn

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Posted: Dec. 21 2006,20:51

Yes it was. I think I was one of the first

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Anyway it's been a while since I decided to rebuild my picture frame, which I'm doing now.

So, I've been using some of the ideas on my page
www.frontiernet.net/~beakmyn along with this guy's
http://www.thewares.net/item/33

and I've done the following (which I'll update on my page shortly)

Create 3 partitions
hda1 ~ 50 mb for frugal harddrive install -remove frugal line in grub boot to keep it readonly.

hda2 ~ 10mb for backup of data (persistant storage for mydsl)
hda3 remainder of drive for the pictures (re-mounted readonly via bootlocal.sh)

I boot DSL then it loads feh and unclutter from hda2. I had to create a feh and unclutter .dsl using deb2dsl but now that Roberts built a unc that's not neccesary. Thanks.

This solution works well for me. I find feh is better the zgv for the simple fact it's faster and quickly resizes pictures to fit my 800x600 screen.

This all works really well on my 166Mhz 80MB RAM. (digital Hinote VP575) it has no fan so it's very quiet.

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Have you seen my Damn Small Digital Picture frame?
http://www.frontiernet.net/~pictureframe
http://rapidshare.com/files/27769266/pframedsl.iso.html
http://www.joyceandkevin.com/dslpictureframe/pframedsl.rar

toadkiller Offline

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Posted: Jan. 05 2007,14:07

Did it work?

digital-hoax Offline

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Posted: Jan. 05 2007,23:54

Thanks a lot for all the replies to my post. It actually did work, and made for a pretty cool christmas present. Unfortunately the laptop got to hot and one of the connectors (the one leading to the tft-screen) melted...
We actually did a frugal install (my brother sweared he didn't choose frugal but it turned out to be one) and put the sshd in the bootlocal.sh. We put on one of the screensavers mentioned on one of the pages from the links above and it worked well. Didn't get cron to work though, so we had it start up with the boot option from the BIOS and the idea was to shut it down with an entry in the bootlocal.sh (e.g. "shutdown 600").
We connected to the ssh server and uploaded pictures to one of the persistent directories from where they were displayed by the screensaver.

Short summary:

1. (frugal) hdd install
2.1. sshd on startup (i.e. bootlocal.sh)
2.2. shutdown on startup ("shutdown 600" in bootlocal.sh for 10 hours of uptime)
3. screensaver on startup (you have to put the startup command for this one in the xinit.conf because the screensaver requires X)
4. upload images to the folder from where the screensaver loads them on the screen

Hope to get it back working soon.

Greetings
D-Hoax

beakmyn

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Posted: Jan. 06 2007,19:10

Just finished mine been using it all week flawlessly
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....26;st=5

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Have you seen my Damn Small Digital Picture frame?
http://www.frontiernet.net/~pictureframe
http://rapidshare.com/files/27769266/pframedsl.iso.html
http://www.joyceandkevin.com/dslpictureframe/pframedsl.rar

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