BeagleBox

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
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 ...

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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)