[hllug] fldigi on a Nokia N800

From: Cranz Nichols <wb5bkl@xxxxxxxxx>
To: LIST - HLLug <hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:39:21 -0600

I thought Lee might be interested in the following.  'fldigi' is one of
the Amateur Radio apps that interest me...


cln
Meanest Man on Emeralds Drive


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3a. Re: Nokia N800 Linux platform and FLDIGI
    Posted by: "Stelios Bounanos" lham@xxxxxxxxxx sorbus42
    Date: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:20 pm ((PDT))

Hi Ron,

>>>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:41:15 -0700 (PDT), Ron 
>>>>> <w2ctx@xxxxxxxxx> was rumoured to have said:

> I just purchased a Nokia N800 pocket-tablet that
> runs a version of debian.

> Has anyone attempted to run Fldigi,NBEMS, etc on
> one of these.  If not I could use some direction on
> how to proceed.

> I believe you can download a development toolset for
> free for this unit.

Fldigi and all its library dependencies should compile and run on the
N800 and its OMAP2420 ARM processor. All the libraries apart from FLTK
are optional, but you would miss some useful features without, say,
PortAudio.

I believe someone has already built a version of FLTK on Maemo and run
the test programs. The N800's 800x480(?) resolution will be sufficient
if you run fldigi with --profile minimal. RAM will probably be enough
too.

There is one other caveat. Fldigi does a ton of floating point
operations and, apparently, additional compiler flags are needed to get
reasonable FP performance on the N800:

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2007-January/thread.html#7617


If you decide to go ahead with this, I should be able to help with the
fldigi, and possibly the cross compilation, side of things.

Good luck and keep us posted!


73,
Stelios, M0GLD.




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