Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
My home router is powered by OpenWRT WhiteRussian RC5 which I installed months ago. For my usage it is ok, but as there is a new release I decided to look does it is worth upgrading.
Their website give access to Changelog but as ’svn log’ output nearly which is bad because they write useless comments like “fix dependency” or “oops... typo :)” so you can’t find out what was really changed. And you can not upgrade with ipkg update; ipkg upgrade — reflashing is required.
Looks like sooner or later I will give a try to DD-WRT or other distro.
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Monday, November 13th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Nearly week ago decided to stop fighting with getting sound working on my new DFI RS482 mainboard and reported bug in Linux bugtracker. After few days and few patches from Dan Carpenter I have sound working. No more atiixp: codec read timeout messages, just working music.
If someone has this problem then here is solution (until it will get resolved finally in mainline):
- unpack kernel sources
- fetch this patch
- build kernel and modules
modprobe snd-atiixp ac97_codec=0- run audio player
Now it is time to wait until this will go into mainline.
Tags: amd64 misc 4 Comments »
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Yesterday during “Open Source in Mobile” conference in Amsterdam First International Computing’s (FIC’s) introduced “Neo1973″ or FIC-GTA001 — the first phone based on the open-source “OpenMoKo” platform.
Why I’m writing about it? It is that SuperSecretProject device which Mickeyl Lauer was talking about on OEDEM. We were informed that this will be Open, will have some wireless possibilities (but no Irda) but it was nearly impossible to get some more informations (you know: NDA etc). From mickeyl’s talks and posts on his website it was clear that this device will use GTK+ 2.0 as base toolkit. They decided to do not use closed source Qtopia Phone Edition but writing own framework instead.
The idea of phone device which has phone software installed and rest depends on what user want sounds delicious for me. And as the phone software was built with OpenEmbedded maybe there will be some discounts for us, developers :)
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