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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 4854 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 4883 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 4883 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

This past weekend I made the 0.4.0 release of BeagleBox. This is a major milestone for the project because it establishes the baselines for two of the core software componets, the bootloader and the kernel. I made a public release on SourceForge and updated the source and build pages on […]

BeagleBox: V0.4.0 released, wiki updated

Mon December 06, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged angstrom / BeagleBox / bootloader / BUI / dvi / dvi output / S-Video / sd card / sourceforge / u boot

Tonight I built the linux-omap-dss2 repo (master branch) from gitorious.org and tried it. This is the repo from the guy working on the OMAP DSS2 support in the kernel. And viola! S-Video output is once again working! BeagleBox now defaults to mainline u-boot (2010.09, at least) an this branch of […]

BeagleBox: DSS2/TV-out success!

Wed December 01, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / DSS2 / mplayer / NTSC / omap / S-Video / TV-out / Video

Trying to come to grips with the myriad of source trees from which BeagleBoard related source can be pulled, I updated the BeagleBoard build system the other day to make it easier to pull from the various archives. Technically there are four ways to get source related to BeagleBoard: A […]

BeagleBox: finding Mr. DSS2

Wed December 01, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / bootloader / DSS / DVI-D / git / HDMI / kernel / omap / S-Video / TV-out / video display (updated 4914 days ago)

It’s a wonder what you can get done once the board actually boots up to a shell prompt. Tonight I completed setup of inittab and boot scripts – along with customization of the rootfs build – to force writes normally bound for the rootfs to end up on a tmpfs […]

BeagleBox: tmpfs for writes, for now, but new u-boot ...

Mon November 15, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged angstrom / BeagleBox / boot scripts / getty / git / inittab / S-Video / sd card / sysinit / tv screen

I finally got a rootfs working with the kernel tonight. It’s a minimal rootfs built with buildroot and busybox but it boots up to a shell prompt and does just enough work to make sure ps displays the process list. Whoopeeeee!!! Now, don’t get crazy here. This is just booting […]

BeagleBox Milestone: the board boots with BeagleBox software!

Wed November 10, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / buildroot / busybox / cvs / initrd / kernel / u boot

I upgraded to Fedora 14 at work yesterday. For the most part the typical processes I’ve written about before worked fine. But two places exposed some caveats. First, network based installation using NFS doesn’t work. What happens is that after the bootloader info is taken some attempt to access the […]

Fedora 14 mini review

Wed November 10, 2010 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / x86-64 tagged boot partition / bootloader / eye candy / f14 / Fedora / grub / kernel command line / nfs / nfs mount / nvidia / nvidia cards / nvidia drivers / Open Source / virtual domains / virtual hosts

Michael J. Hammel

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