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Unpacked Progear

After 691 days of not using Progear I unpacked it and got it running again. Why “691 days”? It was written by fsck during booting.

Progear support in OpenEmbedded is a bit updated now. New kernel (2.6.27) gives VESA frame buffer which finally utilize XGA resolution (in 2.6.19-rc5 it was VGA centered on screen). It still [...]

OpenZaurus time is over - long live Ångström

Some time ago new kernel hacker joined team of people working on 2.6 kernel for Zaurus machines — Thomas Kunze gave us SD/MMC driver for collie and works on other subsystems to get this machine working. As result collie got added into list of Ångström supported devices and test images were generated.

Also during last time [...]

FOSDEM 2007

FOSDEM 2007 is ending now. This was my first one and I enjoyed it. I met so many people, which I know from IRC, that I can not even list them :)

Lot of interesting devices we had on OpenEmbedded booth including:

Neo1973 phone (OpenMoko powered) prototypes Trolltech Greenphone (which got donated by Trolltech) Skeye.pad brought by Kernel concepts Skeye.integral [...]

New desk

Today I switched to new desk. It is a bit smaller and lower then old one but as it has other orientation I was able to configure it better. Currently on desk I have:

Progear webpad + USB keyboard Logitech X-230 speakers small lamp 20″ wide LCD monitor 3 palmtops (under monitor) wireless phone (with cradle) cup heater with integrated USB 1.1 [...]

Linux 2.6.21-rc1 released

Normally I do not write about new Linux releases but this time I have a reason.

commit 7a208463b20e893e8e2074b2d41b8dc09568ddee Author: Marcin Juszkiewicz Date: Wed Feb 7 22:24:01 2007 +0000

backlight: Add Frontpath ProGear HX1050+ driver Add control of LCD backlight for Frontpath ProGear HX1050+. [...]

Backlight control working on Progear

Yesterday I finally found some time to test Ångström on progear. Kernel needed to be recompiled (I forgot to include ATA driver) and finally it boot.

Console in VGA mode on XGA screen does not looks good but I ignored it (this is something to fix later). WiFi works, USB keyboard works so I was ready [...]