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Nokia Starts Shipping Its First Linux based Smartphone, Nokia N900

Teo Bartulovic — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:56:18 -0800

Accroding to Reuters’ Tarmo Virki, Nokia has started deliveries of its first Linux powered Smartphone, a real game-changer that will help Nokia to finally turn the tide of smartphone war in their favour and control the mobile market again.

Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a speech the company started deliveries of the phone on Tuesday.

Analysts see N900 and following Linux devices as key for Nokia to gain back ground in the coming years, something that market has been waiting for a years, a real game-changer that will help Nokia to finally turn the tide of smartphone war in their favour and con... .. .

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Firefox for Maemo Beta 5 Released

Midgard Administrator — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:23:26 -0800

Firefox for Mobile

Firefox for Maemo Beta 5 Released - http://missmobile.wordpress.com/2009...

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Angstrom Demo

Hersh A. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:48:00 -0700

Download Files:
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/Angstrom-Beagleboard-demo-image-glibc-ipk-2009.X-stable-20090612--beagleboard.rootfs.tar.bz2
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/MLO
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/u-boot.bin
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/uImage-2.6.29-r47-beagleboard.bin
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/x-load.bin.ift

In order to make Angstrom Image:
1) Insert the sd card in the computer and unmount it auto-mounted
$ sudo umount /dev/sdb
2) Zero out the SD card
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=822906
3) Start fdisk, and partition
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 2021 MB, 2021654528 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

Command (m for help): x
Expert Command (m for help): h
Number of heads (1-256, default xxx): 255
Expert Command (m for help): s
Number of sectors (1-63, default xxx): 63

NOTE: In order to calculate the number of cylinders: 
the number of Bytes on the SD Card (from above) / 255 / 63 / 512


Expert Command (m for help): c
Number of cylinders (1-256, default xxx): [enter the number you calculated]

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-245, default 1): [(press Enter)]
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-245, default 245): +50

Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): c
Changed system type of partition 1 to c (W95 FAT32 (LBA))

Command (m for help): a
Partition number (1-4): 1
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (52-245, default 52): [(press Enter)]
Using default value 52
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (52-245, default 245): [(press Enter)]
Using default value 245
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 2021 MB, 2021654528 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 51 409626 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdc2 52 245 1558305 83 Linux
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.

WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
Syncing disks.

4) Format the partitions
$ sudo mkfs.msdos -F 32 /dev/sdc1 -n Beagle_Boot
mkfs.msdos 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
 $ sudo mkfs.ext3 -L Angstrom_Demo /dev/sdc2
mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
195072 inodes, 389576 blockshttp://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/x-load.bin.ift
19478 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=402653184
12 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16256 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912

Writing inode tables: done 
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 

5) Unplug, and replug in your SD card, and it should now automount the two partitions that you created.
6) Copy files in the Beagle_Boot partition
  $ sudo cp MLO /media/card/
 $ sudo cp u-boot.bin /media/card/
 $ sudo cp uImage-2.6.29-r47-beagleboard.bin /media/card/uImage
 $ sudo cp x-load.bin.ift /media/card/
7) Untar the file system
 $ sudo tar -xvjf /media/Angstrom_Demo/Angstrom...bz2
8) Unmount the partitions
 $ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
 $ sudo umount /dev/sdb2

Running the demo:
1) start a terminal program: Minicom or Tera Term
2) insert the SD card in the beagle board
3) power on the beagle board
4) stop the auto-boot by pressing Enter
5) type the below commands

mmcinit
fatload mmc 0 0x80200000 x-load.bin.ift
nandecc hw
nand erase 0 80000
nand write.i 0x80200000 0 80000

6) Set the Environment

setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext3 rootwait omapfb.mode=dvi:1024x768MR-16@60'
 FOR PICO: setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext3 rootwait omapfb.mode=dvi:640x480MR-16@60'
setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit; fatload mmc 0 0x80300000 uImage; bootm 0x80300000'
saveenv

7) Boot the SD card
boot

BeagleBoard Project Update

Harvey Sugar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:49:23 -0800

My project, Speed Reader, has been approved for the BeagleBoard Sponsored Projects Program. Now I’ll receive a BeagleBoard to prototype a Speech Timescale Modification application for playing audio books. I’m one step closer to building a real application!

05 Finalprototype of Radio ZagHdaK

(author unknown) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:48:13 -0800

Shared by jkridner
Is that a BeagleBoard I see?

Making your life easier with Vala

ddompe — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:33:22 -0800

We have been watching Vala for a while now. It’s a really cool idea (and if you have programmed GObject before you know what I’m talking about).

Well, we have finally spare the time to integrate support for Vala on the RidgeRun SDK, thanks to the support by the latest automake version. This allow us to easily write vala code for the target platform and the SDK will take care of the cross compilation (and proper vala bindings for the cross compiled libraries).

There are two main points where using vala will greatly speed our customers development capabilities:

GStreamer: developing GStreamer applications is a lot easier if you use object oriented languages, but our experience so far using C++ bindings doesn’t provide the more elegant code possible, and when it comes to integrate it with other technologies like dbus, things start to turn complex. Vala could also be used to develop gstreamer plugins.
DBus: doing glib marshals is a bit of a pain. Vala does dbus interactions as beauty as they should be.

Of course there are tons of other APIs where vala will help us that we haven’t play around yet (sqlite, clutter, WebKit, etc). We are really excited about the possibilities!

If you have never see vala code, here is a simple snippet of a gst pipeline for playing audio.

using Gst; public void main (string[] args) {
 Element src;
 Element sink;
 Pipeline pipeline;  // Initializing GStreamer
 Gst.init (ref args);  // Creating pipeline and elements
 // NOTE: The return type of the pipeline construction method is Element,
 // not Pipeline, so we have to cast
 pipeline = (Pipeline) new Pipeline ("test");
 src = ElementFactory.make ("audiotestsrc", "my_src");
 sink = ElementFactory.make ("autoaudiosink", "my_sink");  // Adding elements to pipeline
 pipeline.add_many (src, sink);  // Linking source to sink
 src.link (sink);  // Setting waveform to square
 src.set ("wave", 1);  // Set pipeline state to PLAYING
 pipeline.set_state (State.PLAYING);  // Creating a GLib main loop with a default context
 var loop = new MainLoop (null, false);  // Start GLib mainloop
 loop.run ();
}

Linux Journal Contents #188, December 2009 - Linux Journal

(author unknown) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:59:43 -0800

Linux Journal Contents #188, December 2009
Linux Journal
You can also read about the Beagle Board, the Mesh Potato and a spate of other interestingly named items. And along with our regular columns don't miss our ...

Playing Developer's Advocate » Blog Archive » Understanding the ...

Jefro — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:09:53 -0700

Michael Cooper and Jason Cooper have written up an extremely approachable treatise on the Beagle Board's boot process. For those who are struggling with understanding the detailed behavior behind bootloaders and the User button, ...

The Pandorian’s guide to SD cards

gruso — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:53:11 -0800

Posted by: gruso

Today we turn our attention to the one Pandora accessory we’ll all be buying: flash memory. SD cards are a part of the landscape these days; you know a piece of tech has gone mainstream when it’s available at the supermarket. But like all mass-adopted technology, this simple, universal appeal can mask a *cough* Pandora’s Box of product variants and pitfalls. This article aims to help you get the most out of your Pandora’s SD slots, and hopefully avoid getting burned along the way.

One card or two?

It should be mentioned that you don’t actually need an SD card to make Pandora work. The operating system lives on the internal NAND memory, so it’ll boot up and run without a card inserted. The NAND is effectively off limits for new apps and data though, so if you want to install stuff it’s BYO memory, baby. You can get by just fine with a single SD card if you have to, but a pair of cards offers more flexibility. You might have a card in slot 1 for your everyday apps, using slot 2 to load up different TV shows or console collections. You might run Ubuntu from slot 1, then load up slot 2 with some satnav software and map packs. You might… have the idea by now.

Selecting the right size

There’s only one rule here: Go as big as your budget allows. A cheap 2GB card can go surprisingly far if you need it to, as long as you’re selective about what you put on it. If you want a substantial variety of gaming with a bit of media on the side, you’ll have no trouble filling an 8GB card. If you can’t leave the house without an entire season of BSG on your person, you’ll be wanting a 16GB card at the least. Pandora supports up to 32GB per slot, if your wallet is up for it.

Selecting a speed class

SD cards are commonly labelled with a speed class of 2, 4, or 6. These classes refer to the minimum transfer rate of the card, being 2MB/sec, 4MB/sec and 6MB/sec respectively. Class 2 cards may struggle with video or demanding games, giving you glitchy or stuttered output. Class 4 cards should be fine for anything Pandora can throw at them. Class 6 cards offer that extra bit of oomph, and are worth the purchase if the price is right. [edit - this section needs some elaboration. Stay tuned!]

SDXC

SDXC is the emerging SD standard that will eventually supersede SDHC (in the same way that Bluray is superseding DVD… very slowly, and not really). Tech talk in the forums suggests that a future firmware update could, in theory, allow Pandora to support the higher storage capacity of SDXC, if not the higher speeds. Theory is all it is though; there is certainly no official support for SDXC in the pipeline.

How should you format your SD cards?

The short answer is, you don’t really need to do anything. New SD cards will be FAT formatted and ready to rock Windows, OSX, or Linux right out of the box. FAT has its detractors though, and its limitations too (like the file size cap of 4GB). FAT detractors will argue that an open file system like Ext2 is technically superior, and their arguments will be valid. But the bottom line is, if you’ve never thought about file systems before, there’s no pressure on you to start thinking about them now. Just plug it in.

Note: OSX users should avoid the Ext2 file system. As Craig discovered back in July, OSX and Ext* don’t play well together. Windows users wishing to dabble in Ext2 need to Ext-enable their system with this free utility.

The SD buyer’s safety guide. Beware of fakes!

A good portion of readers won’t have learned anything new from this article so far. That’s ok, no offence taken. But this is the section everyone needs to read. You’ve probably heard the occasional anecdote about dodgy SD cards or USB drives being sold on eBay. Unfortunately these incidents aren’t so occasional; the market is awash with legions of dodgy sellers and counterfeit products. If you’ve ever seen “bargain” flash memory for sale, chances are it was fake. Now, shifting market prices are compounding the problem. Forum member Prometheus is our resident expert on the topic.

“I have become aware lately (both via SOSFakeFlash and my own observations) that flash media prices are mostly going up, not down as many seem to think they are … the increasing prices coupled with the misconception of falling costs could potentially increase the numbers of people duped.”

Flashchiptutor (part of the SOSFakeFlash group of sites) posted the following guide to average flash costs back in April of this year:

1GB = 3.38 USD
2GB = 4.11 USD
4GB = 6.61 USD
8GB = 13.23 USD
16GB = 29.41 USD

By September, these prices had indeed gone up. Not down!

2GB = 5.17 USD
4GB = 7.31 USD

The golden rule of flash memory, it seems, is that there is no such thing as a bargain. Manufacturing prices have gone as low as they can, and profit margins are slim. If you see an 8GB card at a 4GB price, chances are you’re looking at a 4GB card with a fake label. A card that, given time, will probably eat all your files. So the solution is just to buy SD cards with “normal” prices, right? Sadly, no. The fakers are onto this too, with some sellers now asking market prices for their fake cards in order to look credible.

Thankfully, buying SD cards without getting burned is actually pretty easy. Stick to reputable retailers, known brands, and pay retail price. Buying online can save you a few bucks, but ask around first if you’re not sure about the site. Avoid eBay at all costs. There are some trusted sellers there, but unless you know who they are, it’s not worth the gamble.

SOSFakeFlash | Flash drives 101 | Flash drives 102 | The real cost of flash | Detecting fakes

Special thanks to Prometheus for making this article happen! SD photo borrowed from this guy.

První reálné dojmy z netbooku TouchBook

redakce@root.cz (Root.cz: Josef Kejzlar) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0700

V minulém článku jsem se vás pokusil navnadit na chystající se linuxovou perličku v podobě přístroje TouchBook - netbook poháněný ARM architekturou se spoustou šikovných a rozhodně netradičních vlastností. Zařízení je konečně reálně k dispozici, a tak vám tentokrát nabídneme opravdovou recenzi a dojmy.

WIRED News says: "Fennec fits everything you love about Firefox in your pocket": ...

Midgard Administrator — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:01:35 -0700

Firefox for Mobile

WIRED News says: "Fennec fits everything you love about Firefox in your pocket": http://www.webmonkey.com/blog...

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Nokia N900 Preview of Qik

Mark Guim — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:15:49 -0800

You probably already know that Qik lets you stream video live from your phone. In case you need a reminder, I met the cofounder, Bhaskar Roy, at the Nokia N900 NYC meetup and asked him to give The Nokia Blog viewers a demo. Take a look.

You can also watch this video in HD on Youtube. Subscribe to the channel to preview the latest videos before they get published on the blog.

As a reminder, this is just a preview of what’s to come. This article is based on Qik version 0.0.36 running on a pre-production Nokia N900. Features may be added or changed when the Nokia N900 arrives in stores.

Qik on the Nokia N900 has a very simplistic interface. There’s a prominent green button that lets you stream videos immediately. There’s also quick access to set a title and and privacy.

The application menu on top gives you more settings to play with. Here, you can choose whether to stream videos with max quality or minimum delay. You can also go to your Qik profile from this menu or sign up if you’re new.

Clicking anywhere else on the screen toggles full-screen mode just like the main camera application on the Nokia N900. I noticed there’s currently no way for me to use video autofocus. I hope this feature gets added in an update.

Video Sample

Results

I found streaming to work really well on wifi. The delay is very minimal. My main complaint is that the videos aren’t really viewable ‘live’ when using the a carrier’s internet connection. Viewers will see a choppy video until the file is fully uploaded. For best results, use wifi. What’s also great about Qik is that it will automatically resume uploading if it was previously interrupted or disconnected.

Qik is the fastest way to share your videos online. You can choose to automatically upload your videos to Facebook or send out a Tweet when streaming live. There are more services to automatically forward the Qik streams. I recommend installing it if your phone is supported and definitely recommend it on the Nokia N900.

If you enjoyed this article, you might also like…

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External GSM modem in Beagle board

erin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:58:00 -0800

My friend Tick just migrated 0xdroid to beagle-donut branch and then I go back to work on external GSM modem issue in Beagle board. This time I tried to connect two devices from my working Ubuntu machine via two USB cables. It becomes very easy to debug and trace the behaviour between GSM modem and Beagle board. I set up an ethernet bridge in Ubuntu machine (192.168.0.200) and two USB networks. One is to connect with NEO phone (192.168.0.202) and the other is to connect with Beagle board (192.168.0.201). All of these three devices can see each other. Therefore, I can use ssh or adb shell to control them.

GSM modem is a device "/dev/ttySAC0" in NEO GTA02 phone and I use netcat to make it be listened in port 4270. This modem becomes 192.168.0.202:4270 now. How to make Android to see it? I use a pty small program from OpenedHand. It's like a pseudo terminal and it can reads and writes to the socket. Running it can make GSM modem become a device "/dev/pts/0" in Android. After starting ril-daemon service, it would connect to GSM modem. Then, everything is like usual. We can camp to GSM network and can dial out a phone call. I am going to close this issue and then file other issues about ril problems later.

Beagleboard running!

Tuxer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:05:00 -0800

I finally got my Beagleboard running! It took time but now I'm satisfied :)

EBVBeagle

I ordered EBVBeagle, which is Beagleboard with out-of-the-box functionality. It comes with a SD card that has Angstrom distribution in it.

I had no previous experience of embedding Linux and I was very unsure of how things worked. But finally I got it booting and got display working. But things still did not work very well. The problem was that I was not able to login graphically. X died every time after login screen. I decided to try with a newer version of Angstrom. But how?

Making it running

Luckily there is http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard.
So, I followed loo-oong directions in http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard and I managed to get the new Angstrom demo image running. It booted and I could use BeagleBoard through serial connection but now I lost mouse and keyboard. Next I tried Ubuntu's arm version (http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu). I got it running but again, no mouse or keyboard.

I thought that maybe I'm just not geeky enough and maybe I should leave these to real geeks :(

But I don't like the idea of giving up, so I tried one more thing: I updated the U-boot. The update process seemed to be a little bit scary operation since it means changing the content of board's flash memory. But that solved the problem, I have now mouse and keyboard in XFCE Ubuntu BeagleBoard box.

So why did I have to update the U-Boot? Because:

The kernel your running (2.6.29 series) is expecting the usb pins to be setup in U-boot..
source

Directions for updating the U-Boot:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Upgrade_U-Boot

Frets on Fire for Maemo - Update

(author unknown) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:40:37 -0800

Shared by jkridner
This would be a great on the Beagle and Pandora as well...

Back in March, when Fremantle SDK was released, I had ported Frets on Fire to it. Subsequent discussion made it clear that modifications were required to actually make it run on the device. I created a stripped down version which could run without the OpenGL code. This made it suitable for n900 (and even n810). But due to lack of actual device, I couldn't test it.

Fast forward 7 months. Now I have access to actual n900, so recently I went back to the FoF code. After couple weeks of getting re-acquainted with the code, I have it satisfactorily running on the n900.

Frets-On-Fire code primarily has three parts -

playing the song (loading song, computing notes, etc. uses pygame for audio),
showing the visuals (PyOpenGL+pygame code) and
handling input.

All these components are pretty involved and hard to rewrite - especially so with the audio part (I hardly have any experience in musical notes and midi files). So my priority was to get almost all of the audio code as it is. It was easy to tweak the input code - to make it suite the n900 keyboard. I bypassed the visual part completely - replaced OpenGL with simple pygame sprites. (You may get disappointed by the stark looks).

I have created a project on googlecode to host the code - maemofof. It shows all the changes I had to make, starting from the base Frets-on-Fire code from v1.3.110.

The next step is to package it nicely and push to extras-devel. There are few problems with packaging though.

I couldn't get ogg files to play through pygame. I installed the ogg-support package, but for pygame/sdl to work with it, something more is required - which wouldn't install due to broken dependencies (libsdl-mixeroggwav1.2-dev). So for now I converted all ogg files to wav. But the wav files are huge (~80MB if a single song is included as sample). That makes them inconvenient to package and they also take a long time to load (~90 seconds).

But good news is, the ball got rolling again. I hope to make some progress in coming days. If you have any suggestions, feel free to chime in comments.

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OpenSSH Server on BeagleBoard with Ubuntu

Kai Howells — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:39:32 -0700

Once USB Networking has been configured on the BeagleBoard, everything becomes a lot easier. As ARM is now a first-class citizen for Ubuntu builds, there’s now a world of Ubuntu and Debian software that can easily be installed, either with aptitude or good ol’ apt-get. After USB networking was up and running, I configured internet connection sharing [...]

550 downloads, and rising…

William Roberts — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:19:28 -0700

The Kernel Taster Kit published on Wednesday 21st October has been downloaded by over 550 people in the last 9 days – 77 to the US, 66 to Russia, 42 to China and lots of other countries besides.

This is a great response – we were wondering about blogging that we’d reached 100 downloads, and 500+ was a real surprise. It has made me realise that we missed a few tricks with the kit and the documentation: we forgot to tell you how to get updates, and we forgot to tell you how you can contribute back (What were we thinking…?).

Time to fix that right now.

Get Connected…

The kit contained a snapshot of the source tree. There have been updates to the qemu package since then: Johnathan White at Accenture has added a sound driver and other good things which he demonstrated in the Hands-On Lab session at SEE – thanks, John!

To connect your copy of the source code to the Open Source Mercurial repositories on developer.symbian.org, you will need to install Mercurial, clone each of the three repositories directly into the source tree, and then you are all set to pull down future updates, save your changes, share changes with others and …

…Get Contributing!

As you explore with the code and make changes, you might find bugs: you might also find things which you think could be done better. Please help the Symbian community by raising these things in our Bugzilla database, which tracks both defects & enhancements. Better still, you could develop the necessary code changes to fix the problem, and offer them back as contributions by publishing them to the Mercurial repository.

If you haven’t previously seen the Symbian^3 product reference on the developer website, now’s a good time to visit to find guides to base porting and device drivers, among others, as well as API reference documentation. And don’t forget that the Symbian OS Internals book is available on our Wiki, if you want some introduction to the code, and our Forums are a good place to ask questions.

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the kit so far – I’m thrilled that there is so much interest in this very technical “Under the Hood” part of the Symbian Platform.

William Roberts

PS. Our logs show that some of you click on the download links several times – please get in touch if you are having any difficulties downloading from our website.

BeagleBoard で X を使う

tsukui42 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:33:18 -0800

HDMI 端子にモニタをつないでみるとコンソール画面が出力されていることを確認。USB キーボードつないでみると無事に認識して文字入力できる。USBハブもうまく動く。

次はX起動させて、Window manger を使うことにトライ。残念ながらBeagleBoardDebian のURLのとおりではXが全然起動しなかった。他をあたることにした。

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/exyk/20090313/1236960561
のとおりやったら成功。ログイン画面が表示された。
ただし、日本語フォントのインストールは失敗。パッケージがないといわれたので何もしなかったが特に問題はなかった。一応やったことをメモしておく。

# apt-get install ntpdate
# ntpdate ntp.nict.jp
# hwclock -w
# aptitude install xorg gdm xfce4

そういえばRTCの電池つけたいなあ。
そういえばNTPはいれておくと便利と思ってたけど放置していた。

/etx/X11/xorg.confはもともとインストール後にあったファイルを使用。
下記を編集した。

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Driver "fbdev"
EndSection

/etc/init.d/gdm restart
でXウインドウマネージャの起動を確認。

Ångström GNOME image running on a Touchbook

koenkooi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:11:31 -0800

koenkooi posted a photo:

I decided to build a GNOME image for Ångström and use it on my Touchbook to see how it compares to the the Xfce one.
It's not as slow as I expected, but I prefer it over the Xfce one, mainly because I can't stand the teletubby windows XP theme it uses by default :)

Designer debuts OMAP boards for Android

(author unknown) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Contract design company Moto Development Group (San Francisco) has announced a family of three reference platforms for the Google Android operating system aimed at giving OEMs a leg up on hardware engineering based on Moto's enhancements to the Texas Instruments Beagle board.