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Today I finally brought X up on the BeagleBoard! The configuration is not ideal and there is much work to be done to stabilize and optimize it, but at least X is running. Here is how I get it done with BeagleBox. What to build to get X running with […]

BeagleBox: X is working, stability and optimization still to ...

Sun February 13, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / X11 tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / cvs / DSS2 / getty / git / inittab / kernel / matchbox / neon / NOR / omapfb / sourceforge / surf / X11 / xorg / xterm

Over the holiday I managed to close out a few nagging issues in the builds. First, logins stopped working until I realized that I’d turned off the getty’s on tty0 and tty02. This wasn’t the complete fix, however, as Busybox was adding /etc/securetty to the rootfs and that file did […]

BeagleBox: working Xorg and eth support

Sat January 01, 2011 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged Android / angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / busybox / debian / DSS / DSS2 / fbdev / Fedora / kernel / kernel source tree / matchbox / metabuild / omap / omapfb / ubuntu / usb port / Video / wifi (updated 4863 days ago)

I’ve spent the past week or so trying to integrate my BUI releases into the Buildroot build for BeagleBox. My original intent was to use a metabuild of all of the packages I’d forked from Matchbox so I’d only have one package to build in Buildroot. The metabuild would build […]

BeagleBox: BUI reset

Sat December 18, 2010 in BeagleBox / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / matchbox / metabuild / qemu

I’m working two main issues at the moment: stripping Matchbox to get a new BUI core and working on building and packaging the SGX SDK drivers. The former is going well. I’ve stripped session management and gconf already and checked those in. I’ve got themes stripped down so that the […]

BeagleBox: Adjusting the design, learning about SGX and DSP

Thu August 26, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / DSP / Flash / gnash / kernel / Linux / matchbox / OpenGL / PSP / root filesystem / SDK / session management / SGX

I’m in the process of doing an analysis of the Matchbox code to determine what needs to change in it to create BUI. So far I’ve mapped out the basic code flow and identified the purposes of the files within the window manager, which is where I’m starting the analysis. […]

BeagleBox: kernel update, BUI initial release and analysis progress

Thu August 19, 2010 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / crosstool / dockbar / flyspray / matchbox / omap / qemu / SGX / sourceforge / surf / Xephyr / xterm (updated 4993 days ago)

I decided a fork of Matchbox made the most sense for the BeagleBox UI. There isn’t much activity in Matchbox and the developers are busy with other projects. Besides, Matchbox is for hand helds while BeagleBox is an STB. The fork is named BUI, for BeagleBox UI. Not too original, […]

BeaglBox: BeagleBox UI (BUI) initialized in CVS

Sat August 14, 2010 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged BeaglBox / BeagleBox / BUI / matchbox / STB (updated 4998 days ago)

I signed up for the Matchbox mailing list last night and have just sent a request to find out the status of the project. While I was waiting for confirmation of my sign-up last night I started a metabuild for Matchbox. Essentially its just like the metabuild used by BeagleBox, […]

BeagleBox: Matchbox metabuild to generate patches for buildroot

Wed August 11, 2010 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / buildroot / matchbox / metabuild (updated 4998 days ago)

The version of Matchbox’s panel and desktop programs in buildroot are pre-1.0. The latest available from Matchbox’s site are 2.0. I tried to patch buildroot so that the 2.0 panel would build. This required disabling dbus during the configure and patching the applets/Makefile.in to prevent the notify applet from building. […]

BeagleBox: Matchbox revision issues

Tue August 10, 2010 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / matchbox / Matchbox-panel / OpenEmbedded / qemu (updated 4998 days ago)

I spent the weekend trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the XComposite extension to show up under the fbdev X driver under QEMU. It took until Sunday night to figure out that I need the cirrus fbdev kernel driver along with turning on xdpyinfo, libXcomposite, and the Cirrus […]

BeagleBox: XComposite enabled under QEMU

Sun August 08, 2010 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / fbdev / kernel / kernel driver / libXcomposite / matchbox / OpenBox / qemu / xcompmgr / XComposite / xdpyinfo (updated 4998 days ago)

The build for the QEMU phase now runs Matchbox as the default UI. I’ve integrated an xterm patch from Buildroot’s source tree and launch it as the default application, allowing some runtime testing through the UI. Today I also finished integration of the surf browser into the buld. This was […]

BeagleBox update: Matchbox is now the default UI, surf ...

Thu August 05, 2010 in General tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / GTK+ / matchbox / OpenEmbedded / qemu / thedailyshow / WebKit (updated 5012 days ago)

I’ve gotten the embedded bug lately. I dug around for an interesting hardware platform to work with and stumbled across the BeagleBoard. This 3×3″ board provides impressive multimedia capabilities via the TI OMAP35xx processor. It appears to serve the purpose I had long ago thought about for the miniITX boards […]