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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 5210 days ago)

A recent thread on the Buildroot mailing list about the use of Buildroot in practice got me thinking about why I created BeagleBox and similar systems at work. So I wrote up a paper on it and put it on my wiki. Comments and criticicisms are welcome.

Metabuilds for Embedded Development

Sun March 27, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / crosstool-ng / Development / embedded development / metabuild / Metabuilds

The media server hooked to my big Sony Bravia in the living room has been running MythTV for awhile now, though my wife has never been a big fan of its UI. In fact, she hasn't asked to use it. Ever. She prefers the ease of use of Web based […]

XBMC: two thumbs up from the wife

Sun March 20, 2011 in Linux / MythTV / Open Source / XBMC tagged Bravia / mythbackend / MythTV / Sony / XBMC

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

Work is finally getting under way on the 2nd edition of the Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects. I've updated the text of sections 1, 2 and 3 to match the current state of GIMP development on the 2.8 release. I shipped those off tonight for review by the editor – […]

Artist’s Guide 2nd Ed. Progress – Sections 1, 2 and ...

Mon February 28, 2011 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Writing tagged 2nd ed / Artist / Artist's Guide / GIMP / Guide

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 5280 days ago)

I’m wondering if the recent Sourceforge attack has anything to do with RPMFusion’s download1 host not responding. I did some upgrades at work this week and had problems with it and yesterday I upgraded a media client at home and found Mauriat Miranda’s links to configure RPMFusion timing out. I […]

RPMFusion’s “download1” not responding?

Sun January 30, 2011 in Fedora / Linux / Open Source / virtualization / x86-64 (updated 5280 days ago)

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

Sat January 01, 2011 in BeagleBox / Dell / General / Hardware / Movies / MythTV / Personal / TV / Video tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / dell / HDMI / holiday / MythTV / TV-out / ubuntu (updated 5309 days ago)

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 5310 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

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…