Linux on blag

OchoTracks - 8tracks.com client for MeeGo and Maemo 5

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:59:02 +0000

I’ve been working on this new project since last week. Things are coming along, and hopefully I will be able to port it to BlackBerry 10 too.

MeeGo - N9

Maemo 5 - N900

I’ll try to release a beta version of this next week!

Not able to start VMs in Virtualbox - Ubuntu 12.10

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:09:24 +0000

After installing virtualbox you get the following message:

WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

To fix it run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox

N900 Mer boot to QMLViewer

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:40:25 +0000

The following kickstart files allows the n900 to boot into qmlviewer, I’m going to highlight just the bottom of it, with the next lines we create the launcher for the qmlviewer and then create a symbolic link to make it the default desktop environment.

cat > /usr/share/xsessions/x-meego-qmlviewer.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=qmlviewer session
Exec=/usr/bin/qmlviewer
Type=Application
EOF
# Set symlink pointing to .desktop file
ln -sf x-meego-qmlviewer.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/default.desktop

Here is a video of N900 booting:

Fix for Failed to upload package: Failure on QtCreator

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:52 +0000

Just got hit by this problem, whenever I tried to deploy my application:

 11:06:04: Package created.
11:06:04: Installing package to sysroot ...
Package 'untitled' installed.
11:06:04: Preparing SFTP connection...
11:06:04: Starting upload...
11:06:04: Failed to upload package: Failure
11:06:04: Deploy step failed.
Error while building project untitled (target: Harmattan)
When executing build step 'Deploy Debian package via SFTP upload'

And a notification warning about the little remaining data storage appeared on the device, which I wrongly ignored at first. The problem occurs because QtCreator tries to copy the debian packate to /tmp on the device, N9 for me, and it fails if the space is full. I managed to fill my /tmp partition (which is just 4Mb btw..) by testing some big application. Solution is, ssh to your device, check if you /tmp is full (df -h) and delete any .deb file left there by QtCreator.

Prolink Pixelview MPEG 8000GT en Archlinux

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:10:54 +0000

Esta tarjeta tiene un chip Conexant CX23880. La salida de lspci -nn debe contener los siguientes

04:01.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [14f1:8800] (rev 05)
04:01.1 Multimedia controller [0480]: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] [14f1:8801] (rev 05)

Primero que todo debemos conseguir el firmware xc3028-v27.fw y copiarlo a /lib/firmware/. Para los que quieran obtener el firmware, en mi sitio lo he subido, aclaro que no se si tengo derecho para distribuirlo, si alguien se queja lo quitaré. Tambien hay una guia sobre como extraerlo directamente desde los controladores para Windows http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xceive_XC3028/XC2028#How_to_Obtain_the_Firmware.