It’s been 4 months since my last post but I’ve been working on some fun stuff. Said work has progressed to the point where it’s actually worth talking about publically so I’m crawling out from under my favorite rock and putting it “out there”. My last few bits of writing were about some random OpenEmbedded [...]
NOTE: I took the time to get to the bottom of the issue discussed in this post. There’s a new post here that explains the “right way” to use Makefiles with yocto. As always, the error in this post was mine I’ve officially “drank the Kool-Aid” and I’m convinced openembedde and Yocto are pretty awesome. [...]
In setting up SELinux on my Laptop running Squeeze I’m taking a pretty standard approach. First off I’m working off the packages provided in Sid maintained by Russell Coker so most of the hard work has been done. There are a few programs, mostly specific to a laptop that still aren’t in the right domains. [...]
The last bit of configuration that my laptop required before I’d call it “usable” with the new window manager was related to the function keys. This doesn’t have anything to do with configuring the awesome window manager directly but it does address a few small configurations necessary to provide some functionality that I was used [...]
After whipping up a quick script to kill and restart jackd when my laptop goes into S3 (/etc/pm/sleep.d) I had a revelation: any processes connected to jackd would have to reconnect. This doesn’t happen and sound is just lost. So for jackd to be usable on a laptop they need to support S3 directly and [...]
My last post ended with me describing some troubles getting jackd to wake after my laptop went into S3. I managed to get some debug info out of jack after running it as a dbus service through qjackctl: ERROR: JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync: read error, skip cycle alsa_driver_xrun_recovery ERROR: ALSA: channel flush for playback failed (File descriptor in [...]
I’ve been a Gnome user for a while now. It’s been good to me but I’m a minimalist and lately it feels like I’ve been spending a lot of time fighting against Gnome. This past week I bought a new SSD for my laptop but instead of just copying my system over to this new [...]
If you use make-kpkg to build your kernels and you’re running Lenny you may have had problems building 2.6.34 when it came out. With kernel-package version 11.015 I’m getting the following error: The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h "" does not match current version: "2.6.34" Please correct this I’m sure more recent packages have this [...]
About 6 months ago I purchased a QNAP 419P NAS. I did a bunch of shopping around and settled on this one largely because it’s Linux based, runs on a low powered ARM cpu, and it’s got a pretty active community. After 6 months of operation I can’t say I’m thrilled, but it hasn’t been [...]
