Yearly Archives: 2012

Tonight I pushed the build for PiBox, my version of the BeagleBox build for the Raspberry Pi. The build isn’t complete, but it does generate a working cross toolchain, Linux kernel and root file system. It utilizes binary firmware for the GPU that is used to boot the board (instead […]

PiBox: the buld system for Raspberry Pi

Wed November 07, 2012 in General (updated 4558 days ago)

It took some work, but I finally have SGX fully integrated into the build and have BeagleBox booting into an X session that can run opengl apps. I ran the SGX demos and they all seem to run fine. A couple showed frame rates betweeen 45 and 52 frames per […]

BeagleBox: SGX fully integrated

Mon September 03, 2012 in BeagleBox / Hardware / omapfb / Open Source / X11 tagged BeagleBox / SGX

So I've integrated TI's SGX package into the BeagleBox build. What this does is to run the SGX package's Makefile-based build which in turn installs a bunch of stuff from the archive into another directory. This directory will then contain a bunch of files which need to be installed again, […]

BeagleBox: SGX “install” script sucks

Fri August 31, 2012 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Open Source / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / script / SGX

After removing DRM from being compiled into my 3.2.23 kernel, I had my first initial success with running SGX on my BeagleBoard C4 based on my BeagleBox build. After an initial boot where I stopped my current Xorg session, I ran omap_demo to setup the environment. Not sure what this […]

BeagleBox: initial success with SGX

Wed August 15, 2012 in General (updated 4642 days ago)

I’ve got BeagleBox booting just fine now and have been hacking my way through various releases of the SGX package in order to get OpenGL support for the board. The latest release, 4_06_00_03, makes it possible to build the required kernel drivers and demo applications fairly easily. But there are […]

BeagleBox: SGX (openGL support) requires softfp if you build your ...

Sat August 11, 2012 in General (updated 4646 days ago)

My media server died this past week. Actually, just the hard drive. It was running Fedora 14 and needed to be updated anyway. This server hooks into my Sony Bravia TV via HDMI using an nVidia GeForce 9800GT. After installing Fedora 16 to a new drive, I loaded kmod-nvidia and […]

Media servers: Flash, Hulu, Amazon, ARM and Fedora 16

Sun July 29, 2012 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Firefox / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / omapfb / Open Source / Software Development / TV / Via Motherboards / X11 / XBMC tagged adobe / amazon / Android / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / Bravia / drm / Fedora / firefox / Flash / flash player / flash player plugin / hulu / media servers

AFter a very long delay, I’ve finally rebooted BeagleBox to the point of having wireless networking enabled. I’m using a TP-Link usb-attached wireless adapter via the carl9170 driver with the 3.2.22 kernel. It works, but the driver seems to generate a lot of messages. I’m not sure if they’re errors […]

BeagleBox: networking added and X.org working again

Sat July 14, 2012 in General (updated 4674 days ago)

The 2nd edition of my last book on GIMP, the Artist’s Guide to GIMP, has arrived at No Starch Press and is about to head out to retailers. They’re offering a big discount on orders through July 3rd. You can get info and a code from the following URL:http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7f22e9d06dac9fadee60e1e45&id=21a2c0ade2&e= Hope […]

Discount on Artist’s Guide to GIMP

Tue June 26, 2012 in General (updated 4692 days ago)

Today I deactivated my account on Facebook. I found it essentially useless except to keep up with my daughter at college, but truthfully I'd rather Skype her than browse her photos. I'm not social enough to care to see photos of everyone's vacation or most recent beer-fest. And honestly – […]

B’Bye Facebook.

Wed May 16, 2012 in General (updated 4732 days ago)

…went to press last friday, April 27th, 2012. No word yet on shipping date for orders, but if I hear anything I’ll post it here. The companiion web site is going live now.

Artist’s Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition

Tue May 01, 2012 in General tagged GIMP

Found this article today. Pretty interesting, maybe if only because I agree with the guy about X still being very viable in todays embedded market. http://www.wiredvanity.com/articles/34/on-the-x-windowing-system-and-why-google-isn-t-using-it-for-chrome-os