set top box

With a better understanding of what’s happening with the Beagle Board validation images I’ve started to redesign the boot process for BeagleBox. First, the SD card will be partitioned with two partitions. The first is the FAT32 partition to hold the kernel image, boot scripts and an initial ramdisk (initrd). […]

BeagleBox: understanding the boot process requirements

Sat October 23, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / boot process / bootloader / BUI / DDR / ext2 filesystem / fakeroot / fat32 partition / initial ramdisk / journaling file systems / kernel image / NAND / pivot / root filesystem / sd card / set top box / SGX / STB (updated 4934 days ago)

Most of the ordered parts have arrive, including the BeagleBoard. Man, is that a tiny board for so much capability! I can’t wait to bring it up. Still waiting on the USB hub and 1G SD card. I had to move a 25-in-1 USB-based card reader from my main development […]

BeagleBox: parts arriving

Sun October 10, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / TV tagged 1g sd card / Â BeagleBoard / ATX / beagleboard / BeagleBox / LPDDR / NAND / NOR / S-Video / SDRAM / set top box / south park / Video

I’ve updated the Design page to reflect the knowledge I’ve acquired about the OMAP SGX and DSP. There’s still some work to be done in understanding exactly how Clutter fits into that picture but I’ll get there eventually. In the meantime I’ve completed stripping out the theme support from the […]

BeagleBox: Stripping themes, new bugdb project, updated Design

Sun August 29, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / BUI / DSP / flyspray / OSD / set top box / SGX / Xft

I tested the antenna in my basement with the first of two digital converters (the second from Amazon still hasn't arrived even though it was ordered the same day) and an analog TV. The antenna was able to pick up all the expected channels which antennaweb.org said we should get. […]

Antenna up, first digital box tested

Sun May 09, 2010 in General tagged antenna / Bravia / cable / Comcast / digital converter / digital TV / MythTV / nvidia / radio shack / set top box / Sony / Video (updated 5101 days ago)

The problem with getting rid of cable TV comes from the desire to continue to receive local off-air broadcasts. When the government mandated switch to digital broadcasts occurred, cable users ignored it because the cable companies would handle the situation for us. As long as we were plugged into the […]