getty

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 ...

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / X11  tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / cvs / DSS2 / getty / git / inittab / kernel / matchbox / neon / NOR / omapfb / sourceforge / surf / X11 / xorg / xterm
It’s a wonder what you can get done once the board actually boots up to a shell prompt.  Tonight I completed setup of inittab and boot scripts – along with customization of the rootfs build – to force writes normally bound for the rootfs to end up on a tmpfs […]

BeagleBox: tmpfs for writes, for now, but new u-boot ...

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged angstrom / BeagleBox / boot scripts / getty / git / inittab / S-Video / sd card / sysinit / tv screen