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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 [...]

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 [...]

Rygel XBox support update

XBox support still has not landed in rygel master, though the branch gets more stable currently. I put together a wiki page to describe the necessary quirks together with a [...]

Rygel repository moved

Friday I moved my rygel repository from github to gitorious. The gssdp/gupnp etc. stuff will [...]

Personal vim tip of the day

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.vala \
let g:netrw_sort_sequence = [...]

Fake rpm database in ubuntu

At work I’m currently developing software which is supposed to run on openSUSE. I need to query the package database at some point which of course does not exist on my ubuntu machine. Here’s a quick setup how to create a fake local RPM database:

echo "%_dbpath /home/user/rpmdb" >> ~/.rpmmacros
mkdir /home/user/rpmdb
rpm -i –nodeps –justdb –force-debian *.rpm

And [...]

(Gnu-)Tar option of the day

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