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 […]
Android

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

I downloaded Google’s Android SDK today. The kit is about 55MB for Linux and was a breeze to get running. The kit comes with an emulator that displays a generic phone with the Google UI. The majority of the online help is geared towards creating applications that run on Android. […]