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 ...

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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

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

I’m wondering if the recent Sourceforge attack has anything to do with RPMFusion’s download1 host not responding.  I did some upgrades at work this week and had problems with it and yesterday I upgraded a media client at home and found Mauriat Miranda’s links to configure RPMFusion timing out.  I […]

RPMFusion’s “download1” not responding?

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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

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

I’ve been waiting nearly 30 years for my alma mater to do something noteworthy, well other than something intellectual because lets face it, it’s not MIT.  They managed a national championship in women’s basketball once and for that I’m eternally grateful.  But the guys teams, well, they lack a certain […]

Alma matters

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

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

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!

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

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After upgrading to Fedora 14 at work I did some builds against various kernels, u-boot, buildroot and toolchains we use.  I ran into an interesting problem. make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mjhammel/src/cei/sysbuild/bld/buildroot-2010.05.xcc/output/toolchain/linux-2.6.32.14′ /home/mjhammel/src/cei/sysbuild/bld/buildroot-2010.05.xcc/output/toolchain/linux-2.6.32.14/arch/powerpc/Makefile:178: *** mixed implicit and normal rules.  Stop. ?A bit of googling shows that make 3.82 changed in a way […]

make 3.82 vs the world