For a Linux embedded training, I need to find something fun to plug on an AVR32 board. The board used for the training is a NGW100 board. I decided to try to use the I2C bus. I have several I2C stuff on the desk, but nothing really fun and I don’t want to solder a [...]
admin January 8th, 2012
I bought a couple of months ago a little AVR Dragon card. My initial plan was to use it for debuging programs with the embbeded JTAG. But I run into several issue with that, mainly because the lack of doc on this topic. So, here we are ;)
The AVR Dragon is nice because you can [...]
admin November 30th, 2008
For my new computer I bought a ATI HD 2600 PRO with a bunch of memory. This card has some really good 3D results, and works well on Linux. But I run into some issues with de xv extension on this board. In fact the driver (the free or binary one) doesn’t seems to support [...]
admin May 17th, 2008
After a windows fresh install, the windows setup decided to drop my MBR to put its stuff in. Fine .. but I want my grub back now !
This is an old trick, but udev added a little complexity, so let’s give it a try. First boot on a Ubunty CD, open a console and run:
(here [...]
admin October 30th, 2007
For a little app, I need to send stream over UDP at a fixed rate. I have done severals tests w/ some buffers and sleep(), but I can’t achieve the desired speed. Mainly because sleep() doesn’t provide a stable enought result.
I decided to look at this a little deeply, and decided to use /dev/rtc to [...]
admin January 24th, 2006
Why this soundcard allow me to play 2 mp3 at the same time while this doesn’t.. Hum good question. In fact to support this kind of stuff the sound card should support have some sub-device, to be sure .. simply aplay -l
Here on my shuttle .. not working
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card [...]
admin February 9th, 2005
I now have a Dell Latitude D400 for 1 month. This little (really small) computer is pretty nice to use, but it right now, it’s really hard to have suspend working on this kind of stuff. The main reason: it only support ACPI (no APM), and ACPI isn’t well supported by the Linux kernel.
I have [...]
admin October 24th, 2004
Everybody hate binary kernel module: that’s clear, but sometimes that the only way to use some hardware.
This is really a bad news to all webcam users: USB kernel hackers decide to patch PWC kernel driver to avoid the use of the extended kernel module which is binary only. Check out this for more infos.
update: read [...]
admin August 26th, 2004
I always hated closed source drivers, and ATI is one of the big guy in video card. There is a petition online to ask ATI for specification or better drivers. I sign it because my ATI 9100IGP doesn’t have TVout support right now..
admin August 24th, 2004
Hardware
The Shuttle STK62K is a small XPC that use:
ATI IGP9100 video board
ATI IXP150 AC’97 Audio Controller
OHCI based USB 2
Realtek network card
As i run into different issue with that box, i decided to write a little howto. Look here for more infos
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies [...]
admin July 2nd, 2004