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Offline motorollin

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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2006, 07:57:31 AM »
Ahhhhh, it's cute :-) I love the idea of rotating the AGP slot 90 degrees to make the card parallel with the motherboard. Should be able to fit it in a tiny case!

Where does the RAM go?

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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2006, 08:31:47 AM »
picoPSU is quite nice power supply solution for EFIKA.

Anyone wanting to put EFIKA inside A1000 and use the original keyboard: keyrah should allow that (or maybe not, they speak about A1200/A600 keyboard there. I wonder if it can be made to work with A1000 keyboard?).
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2006, 08:35:15 AM »
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Where does the RAM go?


It's already soldered on.
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2006, 08:38:24 AM »
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Anyone wanting to put EFIKA inside A1000 and use the original keyboard


It would be interesting to know the height of the Efika when the AGP-riser is fitted with a GFX-card (XGI or ATI).
The pure size of the board wouldn't be a problem for sure, but do you think it would still fit into a A1000 case with a GFX-card installed?
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2006, 08:49:41 AM »
I'd guess it's about 4-5cm high. Depends a bit on the graphics card used (and if the backplate can be removed).

EFIKA4063.jpg
The board itself is 118mm x 153mm.
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2006, 09:19:35 AM »
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tomorrow I'll read up on what the requirements are and what all I can do w/it with regards to what OS I can run..


Is there a website somewhere to download Linux distributions for EFIKA or at least a list showing which distributions support it?
How do I install an OS btw, from a CD-ROM hooked up to 1.1 USB? Over Ethernet? Place it on the HD with another PC?
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2006, 09:19:44 AM »
wow, that pico-psu is interesting....
now all we need is MOS for efika!

edit: wth, it says: - 6-26V input ??? this won't work like a normal psu... it needs a power convertor... bah
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2006, 11:00:51 AM »
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Where does the RAM go?

It's already soldered on.

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Why not use an SODIMM slot?

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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2006, 11:10:23 AM »
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Why not use an SODIMM slot?


Would make it more expensive and slightly more bulky. There's a discussion at MZ about it.
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2006, 12:33:21 PM »
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Is there a website somewhere to download Linux distributions for EFIKA or at least a list showing which distributions support it?
How do I install an OS btw, from a CD-ROM hooked up to 1.1 USB? Over Ethernet? Place it on the HD with another PC?



I asked the same question...there will be a webpage up soon that shows this..
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2006, 12:55:56 PM »
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I asked the same question...there will be a webpage up soon that shows this..


Great! Any idea who this guy is?



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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2006, 01:35:15 PM »
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humppa wrote:

Great! Any idea who this guy is?


No idea... but he must be lucky.  :lol:

OK, next picture of this thing running MOS please  :-P
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2006, 02:33:01 PM »
that guy is me.  LOL.  (surely I wouldnt be talking about a 'hot dude' unless there was something wrong w/me.)  LOL
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2006, 02:33:21 PM »
@Piru

If you look at those pictures, you'll notice that it ataches directly to the "foil-plug" of an A1200/600-KBD, so no luck for A1000/2000/3000-KBDs that use a regular PCB (and have the KBD-CPU on it). It might work with some A4000-KBDs which have a shorter "foil-plug", and the CPU on an extra PCB.
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2006, 02:36:55 PM »
Would it be possible to hook up both a slimline CDROM and harddisk to that 2.5" IDE plug?
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Re: EFIKA in the USA??
« Reply #29 from previous page: November 28, 2006, 02:41:00 PM »
@humppa:

I'm hoping so because thats what I aim to do.  I'm looking for a dual 2.5" IDE cable.  Is there such a thing?

EDIT:
I guess I will need a "Slimline CD to Desktop IDE Adapter" off of mini-itx.com.  That will let me use the laptop cdrw/dvdrw drive.  
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