BeagleBox

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 5368 days ago)
I didn’t like the content and management features of SourceForge’s bug tracker so I’ve migrated all the BeagleBox issues from there to a Flyspray-based bug tracker running on my site.  Flyspray provides finer grain organization of issues and allows a visual display-at-a-glance of the status (how much work is done) […]

Bug db migrated from SourceForge to Muse site

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged   Flyspray / BeagleBox / bugzilla / DDTS / flyspray / sourceforge (updated 5368 days ago)
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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 […]

Announcing BeagleBox: Internet video platform for the BeagleBoard

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / blackbox window manager / BUI / hardware platform / matchbox / metabuild / multimedia / multimedia capabilities / MythTV / omap / pmwiki / qemu / sourceforge / surf / ui components / Video / video platform (updated 5368 days ago)