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 […]
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.
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 – […]