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Back in October I started work on a new app for PiBox: an XM radio player. The hardware is an XMPCR, a device sold in the early 2000’s that connected over USB to a PC. The device didn’t last long. I think there was some concern that people would steal […]

PiBox: XM radio app (PiXM) and wifi scanning in PNC

Wed December 14, 2016 in Audio / General / GTK+ / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / PiBox Network Config / PiClock / PiXM / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / XMPCR tagged Android / busybox / colorado springs / graphics / GTK+ / laptop / Linux / linux journal / Media Server / PiBox / Radio / Raspberry Pi / Roku / routers / signal / Sirius / ui components / video playback / video player / wifi / ximba / xm radio / xmpcr

A while back I made an official 0.5.0 release for PiBox which I announced on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Since then I've made significant advances in preparing PiBox for use as a media server in my travel trailer. Some of the features I've recently implemented include: Support for running as […]

PiBox: 0.5.0 released, many new features since

Mon August 19, 2013 in Hardware / Linux / omapfb / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / X11 / XBMC (updated 3901 days ago)

I'm still a Fedora user, even after years of releases that seem to cause more headaches than they solve. I understand it's a bleeding edge distro. But at the current rate of change it's bound to bleed out by the end of the year. Systemd is a pain for me […]

F19 upgrade: is this really getting better?

Tue August 06, 2013 in Fedora / GTK+ / Linux / NVidia / PulseAudio / X11 / XFce

It took some work, but I finally have SGX fully integrated into the build and have BeagleBox booting into an X session that can run opengl apps. I ran the SGX demos and they all seem to run fine. A couple showed frame rates betweeen 45 and 52 frames per […]

BeagleBox: SGX fully integrated

Mon September 03, 2012 in BeagleBox / Hardware / omapfb / Open Source / X11 tagged BeagleBox / SGX

So I've integrated TI's SGX package into the BeagleBox build. What this does is to run the SGX package's Makefile-based build which in turn installs a bunch of stuff from the archive into another directory. This directory will then contain a bunch of files which need to be installed again, […]

BeagleBox: SGX “install” script sucks

Fri August 31, 2012 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Open Source / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / script / SGX

My media server died this past week. Actually, just the hard drive. It was running Fedora 14 and needed to be updated anyway. This server hooks into my Sony Bravia TV via HDMI using an nVidia GeForce 9800GT. After installing Fedora 16 to a new drive, I loaded kmod-nvidia and […]

Media servers: Flash, Hulu, Amazon, ARM and Fedora 16

Sun July 29, 2012 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Firefox / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / omapfb / Open Source / Software Development / TV / Via Motherboards / X11 / XBMC tagged adobe / amazon / Android / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / Bravia / drm / Fedora / firefox / Flash / flash player / flash player plugin / hulu / media servers

So I've upgraded three machines to F16 (from F14) so far, two at work and a laptop at home. The latter I spent a lot of time tweaking to work as much like my old GNOME 2 setup. XFce comes close but there are some tweaks an I have a […]

F16 an XFce: minor bits migrating from GNOME 2

Sun December 11, 2011 in Fedora / General / Linux / XFce tagged compositor / firefox / gnome / intel 915gm / laptop / WebKit / xfapplet / xfce / xscreensaver (updated 4451 days ago)

I've managed to build and boot Buildroot 2011.02 using the 2.6.32 Arago kernel and Crosstool-NG 1.8.2 with GCC 4.4.3 and uClibc 0.9.30.2. The build works just as well as the older Buildroot 2010.11 I had been using, but there is a problem with where fonts are being installed. For some […]

BeagleBox: Buildroot 2011.02 progress (toward video playback), Ubuntu and Linaro

Sat April 09, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Open Source / X11 tagged arago / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / cross compiler / crosstool-ng / DSP / gcc / kvm / Linaro / Linux / omap / OpenEmbedded / poky / rxvt / SGX / sysroot / ubuntu / uclibc / video playback / xfont / xfont_font-adobe / xfont_font-util / yocto (updated 4766 days ago)

Sitting around this weekend taking care of one of my pups (Bailey, who just had TPLO surgery to fix a torn ACL) I decided to take a deeper look at the problem with the cross toolchain supporting NEON instructions. I did a few more Google searches and found the Linaro […]

BeagleBox: fixed NEON problems in cross toolchain

Sat March 12, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / neon / toolchain

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

I made a little progress this week. First, I managed to build a 2.6.32 kernel based on Angstrom's recipes that appears to be the build to use for PSP support. Something tells me this is sufficient to get the Xorg driver working, but I haven't tried it yet. In any […]

BeagleBox quick hits: more kernels, NEON toolchain

Wed February 09, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / kernel / neon / toolchain

I’m back to working on BeagleBox again after a long pause. The holidays were the first delay, but now I’m down to working only weekends on BeagleBox because my weekday nights are taken up with working on the 2nd edition of my last GIMP book (promised to the publisher, No […]

BeagleBox: no joy with Xorg yet

Sun January 30, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Open Source / Software Development / X11 (updated 4836 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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