November 28th, 2008
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 [...]
April 26th, 2007
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 [...]
February 25th, 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 [...]
February 21st, 2007
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 [...]
February 21st, 2007
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+.
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January 5th, 2007
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 [...]
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