April, 2011 | Michael J. Hammel

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

Sat April 23, 2011 in General tagged dept56 / dept56 village / dickens / Dickens Village / north pole series / village / 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 ...

Wed April 20, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / BUI / ubuntu / 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 […]