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The man page for timer_create() (used in applications, not in kernel code) gives a useful example of how to create and start high resolution timers.  However, it fails to mention that if you use multiple timers with a single signal then you need have a single signal handler that can […]

Working with timer_create() to use multiple timers using a single ...

 in General / Linux / Software Development  tagged alarm / callback / high resolution / kernel / resolution timers / sigaction / SIGINFO / signal / signal handler / SIGRTMIN / timer (updated 5287 days ago)
I'm installing on an Asus A53S at work using Fedora 14.  I won't use Fedora 15 until they clean up the GNOME 3 fiasco (I want my old workflow, not something cool just to be cool).  The installation fails when it tries to launch X.  If you don't want a […]

Quick note: Installing Fedora on an Asus Intel i5 w/ ...

 in Fedora / General / Hardware / Intel / Linux / NVidia  tagged Asus / Fedora / framebuffer / framebuffer driver / intel / nvidia / Open Source / usefbx / VESA / xdriver (updated 5287 days ago)
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Santa, in the form of my wife and daughter, really came through this year.  Ry got me a Dell ST2010 HDMI monitor to use with my BeagleBoard.  I think she saw the mammoth CRT TV I had hooked up to it and thought I deserved something more modern.  I have […]

Happy Holiday: Lilliput and HDMI monitors, another WD archive

 in BeagleBox / Dell / General / Hardware / Movies / MythTV / Personal / TV / Video  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / dell / HDMI / holiday / MythTV / TV-out / ubuntu (updated 5507 days ago)
I’ve been waiting nearly 30 years for my alma mater to do something noteworthy, well other than something intellectual because lets face it, it’s not MIT.  They managed a national championship in women’s basketball once and for that I’m eternally grateful.  But the guys teams, well, they lack a certain […]

Alma matters

 in General / Personal / sports  tagged alma mater / bcs bowl / eastern washington university / espn / Mike Leach / national championship game / national polls / pirate booty / Texas Tech
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

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / crosstool / dockbar / flyspray / matchbox / omap / qemu / SGX / sourceforge / surf / Xephyr / xterm (updated 5637 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

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeaglBox / BeagleBox / BUI / matchbox / STB (updated 5642 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

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeagleBox / buildroot / matchbox / metabuild (updated 5642 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

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / matchbox / Matchbox-panel / OpenEmbedded / qemu (updated 5642 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

 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 5642 days ago)