Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:22:02 +1000 From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Internet kiosk style setup Message-ID: <1095121315.48400.338.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com>
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Hi all, Has anyone setup an internet style kiosk using FreeBSD?? What I am lookong for is something that has all the usual firewall / routing stuff that is bog-standard in FreeBSD, but which will support a graphical touchscreen and a barcode card reader. It needs to be able to run promo stuff that will probably be made by a marketing firm using Powerpoint (sigh), so it needs to boot on powerup into X and auto run the powerpoint somehow as well as fire up the support progs for the card reader. (/usr/local/etc/rc.d here I come) NOTE: It wont actually provide visible internet connection for the users but will need connectivity to a central site via the ubiquitous internet. I need to switch to 'some other graphical program' (sic) on a card swipe, run that and then revert to the powerpoint. This may have to be some master program that has to manage the overall selection of currently on-top / in-focus pages.... The 'invisible' background daemons I dont have any prob with, as they will be rc.d boot scripts or cron jobs or inetd children, but the graphical bit currently eludes me. Can X / a window manager be run without a user login as an interactive display or am I barking up the wrong tree? (ie I dont want to have to add a winblows box just for the graphics. And I wont be specing any system without serious BSD firewalling etc) BTW - I'm just looking at the KDE site re kiosk and found this http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/ README.kiosk?rev=KDE_3_2_BRANCH&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup which may be a pointer to the right direction ... once I get my head around it all. mjt -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************** This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ****************************************************************
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