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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

 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
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

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Open Source / X11  tagged arago / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / cross compiler / crosstool-ng / DSP / gcc / kvm / Linaro / Linux / omap / OpenEmbedded / poky / rxvt / SGX / sysroot / ubuntu / uclibc / video playback / xfont / xfont_font-adobe / xfont_font-util / yocto (updated 5135 days ago)
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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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

 in BeagleBox / Dell / General / Hardware / Movies / MythTV / Personal / TV / Video  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / dell / HDMI / holiday / MythTV / TV-out / ubuntu (updated 5234 days ago)
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

 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged Android / angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / busybox / debian / DSS / DSS2 / fbdev / Fedora / kernel / kernel source tree / matchbox / metabuild / omap / omapfb / ubuntu / usb port / Video / wifi (updated 5234 days ago)
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

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / bootloader / DSS / DVI-D / git / HDMI / kernel / omap / S-Video / TV-out / video display (updated 5265 days ago)
This weekend I buckled down and merged the BeagleBoard validation images kernel configuration into my BeagleBox kernel configuration.  When I booted the resulting kernel with the validation images ramdisk image it worked.  Unfortunately, because there were a fair number of changes to merge in it isn’t clear exactly which ones […]

BeagleBox: kernel boots initrd, initramfs still doesn’t work

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot messages / bootloader / BUI / cvs versions / INITRAMFS / initrd / inittab / kernel configuration / pivot / ramdisk / sd card / serial port
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I couldn’t figure out why my initrd or rootfs wouldn’t work and had exhausted all obvious solutions.  Jumping to Occam’s Razor, I decided the problem may be with the cross compiler toolchain.  So I grabbed Free Electron’s (FE) embedded Linux training lab (which focuses on the BeagleBoard) and decided to […]

BeagleBox: small steps – better xcc, u-boot/kernel boot but ...

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / bootloader / buildroot / cross compiler / ext2 filesystem / free electron / kernel / occam s razor / omap / sd card (updated 5294 days ago)
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I fiddled with the u-boot env variables tonight to try and resolve the S-Video problem.  One trick from the BeagleBoard mailing list said to set omapfb.mode=tv:ntsc and omapdss.def_disp=tv.  I tried this but found that if I tried to run the boot manually  to pick up these changes to the bootargs […]

BeagleBox: which u-boot am I fiddling with?

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux  tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / NTSC / omapfb / S-Video / sd card (updated 5306 days ago)
All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images.  I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together.  I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]

BeagleBox: reality sets in – boot issues

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / TV  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot process / BUI / buildroot / DSS / dvi / Linux / LPDDR / mplayer / NTSC / omap / root filesystem / S-Video / sd card / SGX / Video (updated 5308 days ago)