maandag, januari 30, 2006

Nokia 770 OSGi

These screenshots show a Nokia 770 with the Oscar OSGi implementation running on top of the JamVM Java virtual machine and GNU Classpath classlibraries.


screenshot02

Starting the bundle

Stopping the bundle

maandag, januari 23, 2006

Transcoding video for the K750i

This works fine for me:
ffmpeg -i sourcevideo.avi -s qcif -b 256 -acodec aac -ab 128 -ac 2 targetvideo.mp4

ffmpeg -i sourcevideo.avi -s qcif -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec aac -r 20 -b 192 -ab 96 -ac 2 -ar 44100 targetvideo.mp4

donderdag, januari 19, 2006

Ubuntu Breezy bug

When unmounting an external USB drive by clicking on the drive's icon and choosing "unmount volume",
the following error-message appears:


And, the strange thing is, the drive is apparantly unmounted, as there is no trace of it in either, mount or df's output.

woensdag, januari 18, 2006

Nokia 770

I have been playing with the ultra-cool Nokia 770! :)

Here's a pic of my RTAI LiveCD website rendered with the browser on the device (Opera).

Puppy for mom


We bought a cute little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy for my mom:

maandag, januari 16, 2006

Repository moved

Due to unstability of the server that previously hosted my repository, I've moved my Ubuntu Breezy repository. The new line to add to your /etc/apt/sources.list would be:
deb http://alpha.uhasselt.be/takis.issaris/breezy/ ./

vrijdag, januari 13, 2006

E17 screenshots

Some screenshots of current Enlightenment 0.17's CVS code.


E17 starting...


Various apps available in the E17 CVS repository:


Entice, a image viewer using the E17 libs:

GIT CVS import Ubuntu Breezy package

Added a cvsps 2.1 package to the repository as Ubuntu Breezy still ships with 2.0rc1. Version 2.1 is needed for GIT's CVS import functionality.

woensdag, januari 11, 2006

UM Linux HOWTO

This is a short howto, explaining how to setup User Mode Linux for simple Linux kernel module development and experimentation. I'm using the current Linux kernel 2.6.15 version (actually, todays GIT tree :) )

I like to keep my filesystem structure nice and clean, which is why I tend to use multiple partitions and directories for separate things. I've got a /usr/local/src directory which contains the linux-2.6 subdirectory contains the Linux kernel sourcecode. All my builddirectories are stored in /mnt/build, and so the first thing to do is to create a new entry for the Linux 2.6 UML build:
mkdir /mnt/build/linux-2.6-um

Next, enter the Linux kernel sourcecode directory:
cd /usr/local/src/linux-2.6

We'll start from the default UML configuration file for the kernel:
cp arch/um/defconfig /mnt/build/linux-2.6-um/.config

Use the defaults from that default config file:
make oldconfig ARCH=um O=/mnt/build/linux-2.6-um/

In case there's anything you want to change in the configuration of the UML kernel, start
the configuration menu:
make menuconfig ARCH=um O=/mnt/build/linux-2.6-um/

Now, we're set to do the actual building of the kernel. This will take a while...
make ARCH=um O=/mnt/build/linux-2.6-uml/

We need a disk image for the UML kernel to use. So, we'll create one. There's many ways to do this, this is a rather simple one.

First create an empty file which will kind of represent a disk drive (or actually a partition on a diskdrive):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/tmp/sarge.ext2 bs=1M count=500

Put a filesystem on this partition, ext2 is fine for such a simple development system:
mkfs.ext2 /usr/tmp/sarge.ext2

Mount the filesystem image using loopback:
mount /usr/tmp/sarge.ext2 /mnt/loop/ -o loop

Copy an existing Linux distribution in this mounted filesystem image:
cp -var /usr/chroots/sarge/* /mnt/loop/

Move into the mounted filesystem and create the needed device nodes for UML:
cd /mnt/loop/dev
./MAKEDEV ubd

Next we'll install the kernel modules into the mounted filesystem:
cd /usr/local/src/linux-2.6
make modules_install O=/mnt/build/linux-2.6-uml ARCH=um INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/mnt/loop/

And finally, umount the filesystem image:
umount /mnt/loop/

Make a link named root_fs to your new partition image:
cd /usr/tmp
ln sarge.ext2 root_fs

Start the new UML kernel (and in this case, skip the default initscripts to get a real quick boot):
/mnt/build/linux-2.6-uml/linux init=/bin/bash

On the host system, create a directory for sharing files with the guest:
mkdir /tmp/forguest

In the guest system, mount this:
mount none /tmp -t hostfs -o /tmp/forguest

Now, any file appearing on the host system in /tmp/forguest, will also appear within the guest system in the /tmp directory.


Write whatever kernelmodule code (which doesn't actually access hardware since we're using UML)
you want in the /tmp/forguest directory.

Execute the following command once:
make -C /mnt/build/linux-2.6-uml/ modules ARCH=um

Build the module with the following command:
make -C /mnt/build/linux-2.6-uml/ SUBDIRS=$(pwd) modules ARCH=um

From the guest system, load the kernel module using:
insmod ./mymodule.ko

Remove it with:
rmmod mymodule

That's it! :)

dinsdag, januari 03, 2006

Linux 2.6.15 released!

Fifteen years after Linus Torvalds bought the machine which got Linux started, version 2.6.15 of his kernel has been released! :)

Added an Ubuntu Breezy image to my repository. Compiled for 686, with the default 686 ubuntu kernel configuration (thus most modules/drivers are available).

And, as I'm using an NVIDIA card here, I've added the NVIDIA kernel driver package too. It's not the current NVIDIA version, but the version included in Ubuntu Breezy (7667) recompiled for the above kernel.

Linux 2.6.15 Breezy kernel package
NVIDIA 7667 driver for the above 2.6.15 Breezy kernel