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Nomination period open for Nordic Free Software Award

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 | FSCONS, Free Software, GNU, Software | No Comments

FSCONS Embedded taks form

Sunday, August 29th, 2010 | FSCONS, Free Software, Software, conference, event | No Comments

FSCONS – do you want to present something

Thursday, July 1st, 2010 | FOSDEM, FSCONS, Free Software, Software, conference, event | 2 Comments

Do you want to present something at FSCONS? File a proposal here: http://wiki.fscons.org/page/Call_for_participation_2010 When looking at the submissions so far I can say it’s going to be a great conference this year too. We are in contact with some really skilled hackers and just a few details away from getting them to come over

GNU Xnee can replay on Maemo / N900

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 | Free Software, GNU, GNU Xnee, Software | 4 Comments

Last week I got a N900 from Pelagicore to make sure GNU Xnee executes on the device. And as soon as Xnee is verified to work on the N900, we can start testing the work done in Xnee to support X Input Extension input devices.

Last Friday I tested Xnee on the N900, by logging in to my development computer (x86) from the N900, using ssh -X. It didn’t work. Since I didn’t know where the problem lied, Xnee or the X server or perhaps the ssh client/server,  I decided to natively build Xnee for N900…. but when to do that?

Today, I finally had some spare time to hack on Xnee and N900. First thing, set up scratchbox. It was great getting to know scratchbox. After scratchbox was installed there was nothing hindering me … or was it?

It took an hour to play around with some new ./configure options, change the autotools config files, add some #define and to add some libs to the linker in order to get an executable cnee for the Maemo device. The compilation worked well (after a while), so I continued with testing cnee on the device.

* Record: does not work

* Replay: works

* Retype: works

so I guess it’s time to dive down into the X server shipped with the device to figure out what’s wrong with RECORD extension in the N900 X server. More info to come….

Thanks Pelagicore for the N900