X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=MayBlog;h=0b5d22d2e8510f61419d558e71c9735de54976dc;hp=8727c5d5f27796d821c7ec903681a354bd0f4172;hb=08bb458de123e4a348653072a1b0b279132a90df;hpb=3a9cf71cc68ad672f719648d9b9c7109d96ef932 diff --git a/MayBlog b/MayBlog index 8727c5d..0b5d22d 100644 --- a/MayBlog +++ b/MayBlog @@ -2,6 +2,39 @@ '''Tip:''' as always, start from the bottom and proceed bottom up to keep time flowing in one direction. +=== Wed, 16th === + +=== Office Space ==== + +Here are a few pictures of the OlpcOffice! + +==== Hack Hack Hack ==== + +I've been assigned a problem with an invalid serial port baud +rate after resume from software suspend. + +I started investigating the hard way, until ChrisBall pointed +me on IRC to talk with the KernelHacker DavidWoodhouse, who +obviously had a solution in a few seconds. Unfortunately, +it didn't work as we expected and MitchBradley of OpenFirmware +joined the conversation to help. + +Having all the subsystem gurus available to fix your bugs makes +things a lot easier... Hehe, I think I like it ;-) + +And so tomorrow I'll get back to work on a MandelBug with the Xorg's +driver for the AMD chipset. When XVIDEO is enabled and you +rotate the display with XRANDR, sometimes the X server crashes, +sometimes it just hangs and sometimes it survives with a corrupted +display. And the bad news is that gdb also hangs. + +How will I fix this? Easy: I'll go looking for the driver authors +first thing tomorrow and beg them to send me a fix :-) + +By the way, lately I've been hanging regularly in #olpc on FreeNode. +My nick is _bernie. Come over to see what's going on! + + === Mon, 14th === ==== All Night Long ====