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The X201, addendum

The fingerprint reader

The fingerprint reader is a mess. It has the USB id (147e:2016) of the upeksonly driver in the fprint project, but it doesn’t work. The reader seems to work with the normal UPEK driver (either in thinkfinger or fprint) by modifying the supported USB id. But the answers it presents to the driver don’t [...]

Kolmas viikola Helsingissä

or: You’re holding it wrong. Seriously. Once upon a time, you could buy a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad with Intel graphics and it just worked. While the Intel issues in the last versions of Ubuntu were mostly home-grown, the current disaster with the Core i3/i5 on-chip graphics isn’t. Like in the X201.

The Ubutu experience

Getting Ubuntu 10.4 LTS to [...]

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gconftool-2 –set /apps/xchat/channel_list/auto_popup –type [...]

Simple web-radio sharing with rygel, part due

If you try the receipe shown here with a RTSP source, you might need to throw in an additional input-selector element in [...]

Simple web-radio sharing with rygel

One easy method to share any web radio via UPnP on your network is to use the gst-launch plugin. This is a simple rygel.conf snippet to expose NDR Info to your DLNA enabled devices. For other services I’d first try to replace the uri and the content-type accordingly.

[GstLaunch]
enabled=true
launch_items=ndrinfo
ndrinfo_title=NDR [...]

Mr. Fusion

That was easier than I expected. After a bit of googling and hand-crafting libtool archives, Rygel’s plugins now work on Windows as well. Now I just need to clean-up all [...]

1.21 Gigawatts

The beast is alive… Well. Sort of. Plugins still missing…

$ ./rygel.exe -g 5
** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to load user configuration: Es wurde keine g³ltige Schl³sselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden
** (rygel.exe:8080): DEBUG: new network context {C457B4A8-2516-46B9-837A-F5167D574A2E} (192.168.200.64) available.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to create context for host/IP ‘{C57C8A03-20D6-4A0F-8C5D-946804401865}’: Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: [...]

Xbox support landed in rygel master

Support for the Xbox 360 has landed in master. You need:

gupnp master0.13.3
gunp-av master0.5.5
gupnp-vala master0.6.5
rygel master

For the transcoding to work properly make sure you have gst-lame and gst-ffmpeg installed.

On a side note: Rygel master has now gained the ability to serve subtitles to Samsung DLNA [...]

Rygel’s XBox support

Status update: We’re nearly there. Out-of-the box support of XBox 360; no patches, no database [...]

Software wishlist

I’d really like a decent vocabulary trainer for my phone. It would be great if I could use the 30 minutes I spent on the tram to work for a quick training session. And it should be able to synchronize  its data and learning statistics with my desktop app. I like and use I GNU it [...]