Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…

Software Development

MJHammel’s Projects

I’m making progress – the kernel modules all load now. I had to switch to RH’s insmod from Busybox’s because translucency.o won’t load with BusyBox’s. That means all insmod’s need -r now and all modprobe’s don’t work (they got switched to insmod’s). But that pretty much matches what Larry did […]

MythTV segfaults when starting LiveTV

Sun October 24, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV

The via_v4l_drv.o module is available and the init.sh script should be loading it, but apparently it didn’t get loaded – maybe the load order is wrong. Anyway, once that module is loaded then /dev/video2, which makes me think MythTV will be happier and possibly run now. I think I just […]

MythTV: via_v4l_drv not loading

Sat October 23, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV / Video (updated 6124 days ago)

I’ve moved the Future Plans page into the Wiki so I can more easily edit it. That lets me do design work from anywhere, and thus work a little bit more often on XNotesPlus than I have been. Today I knocked off two more features from the 3.7 release. The […]

XNotesPlus updates

Thu October 21, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged xnotesplus

Rob Pike was interviewed by Slashdot today. His replies to questions are extremely clear and lucid. And thought provoking. One of the big insights in the last few years, through work by the internet search engines but also tools like Udi Manber’s glimpse, is that data with no meaningful structure […]

Getting what you need when you need it.

Tue October 19, 2004 in Linux / Software Development (updated 7500 days ago)

The build system is coming along. Various reports of problems so far have been easy to fix although one report of really poor results on SuSE may be much more difficult to address. The goal is to make the MiniMyth build system run on any Linux platform on which MythTV […]

Minimyth build – Alsa

Tue October 19, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged debian / Fedora / Linux / MythTV / suse (updated 7500 days ago)

Larry set up the Perforce repository and I checked in the build system tonight. There is still lots to do, though. Time to get back to work. Since its been a couple of weeks since I worked on the build system (I had an article to get out for LinuxFormat […]

Minimyth Build System commited

Thu October 14, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Linux (updated 7505 days ago)

Larry Matter contacted me about integrating my build system with his MiniMyth project. He’s setting up source code control using an open source licensed version of Perforce. When its ready I’ll check in my build tools and we’ll start working together from there. There is lots to do, not the […]

Minimyth Build System

Tue October 12, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Open Source

All projects under XEUS are now back under CVS control. Each project has its own CVS repository so, if anyone actually starts to help with these, I can manage access on a project by project basis more easily.

Conversion to CVS completed

Tue October 12, 2004 in Linux / Software Development

I’ve got all the projects checked into CVS again in preparation for migrating away from Subversion. The latter is probably a good system, but I’ve had lots of trouble getting authorization to work and I don’t want to spend any more time on it. I know I can get CVS […]

Migration back to CVS in progress

Mon October 11, 2004 in Software Development (updated 7508 days ago)

Trying to keep up with the TechoJones, I put all my software projects under Subversion control. Unfortunately the authentication issues with Subversion keep getting in my way. I just tried to add a couple of files to a project and I find I don’t have write access. I used to […]

Agggh…Subversion…

Fri October 08, 2004 in Linux / Software Development

I’ve finally got my minimyth build environment for the PXE files (boot kernel and cramfs ramdisk) working to the point where MythTV will come up. The build process is fairly clean – you can build different components individually then rebuild the “pkg” (kernel and cramfs). That makes working on updates […]

MiniMyth Build System

Thu October 07, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV / rpm / Video

This is just a test to see if the code viewer really works. The following should be the formatted CSS used by code-viewer in the wp-layout.css file: Yep – it worked. Very nice. I had to install the CSS at the top of the rubric style I’m using, but that […]

Testing the code viewer plugin

Thu October 07, 2004 in Linux / Software Development (updated 7512 days ago)