So I've upgraded three machines to F16 (from F14) so far, two at work and a laptop at home. The latter I spent a lot of time tweaking to work as much like my old GNOME 2 setup. XFce comes close but there are some tweaks an I have a […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
I’m playing with F16 at work, prep’ing for the big migration from F14. I’ve already installed a laptop. Now I’m doing a dual-core server. The first thing I noticed that is different from my usual installation process is that the asknetwork boot option to anaconda doesn’t work. The boot process […]
F16 Upgrade Notes
I ran into an interesting problem today. I have a C application with functions calling writev() to send data across the network. The messages being sent range from very small – a few bytes – to over 1MB. These functions have worked great up to this point. Today I integrated […]
writev() vs send() when using signals
5 The man page for timer_create() (used in applications, not in kernel code) gives a useful example of how to create and start high resolution timers. However, it fails to mention that if you use multiple timers with a single signal then you need have a single signal handler that can […]
Working with timer_create() to use multiple timers using a single ...
I'm installing on an Asus A53S at work using Fedora 14. I won't use Fedora 15 until they clean up the GNOME 3 fiasco (I want my old workflow, not something cool just to be cool). The installation fails when it tries to launch X. If you don't want a […]
Quick note: Installing Fedora on an Asus Intel i5 w/ ...
It's rather late, but I finally uploaded the images from this years village setup. The images are not as good previous years because I just didn't have the time to set up the shots. Ah well. I'll do better in 2011. New images are ready for browsing. I've also updated […]
Finally updated 2010 Dept56 village images
This past weekend I completed verification that the build works on Ubuntu (see below). In this process I also cleaned up the component builds a bit, added documentation and verified that a build from scratch (no local archives) works correctly. And it does. The resulting packages provide a booting system […]
BeagleBox: Ubuntu support ready, stable build but no video playback ...
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
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. Related posts cdtools, […]
Metabuilds for Embedded Development
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
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
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 – […]