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Inaugural downtown Ottawa Linux geek-up, Tues, May 24, 5 pm.

Submitted by rpjday on Fri, 2011-05-20 09:53

Tuesday, May 24 will represent the first after-work meeting of what I'm unofficially calling the downtown Ottawa Linux kernel geek-up. The plan is to meet on a moderately regular basis after work on selected weekdays in downtown Ottawa, and hash out the gory details of some pre-selected feature of the Linux kernel. (NOTE: It's not a general Linux geek-up -- it's specifically for Linux kernel discussion, just to be clear.)

Workaround for the Intel i915 "black screen" Linux boot problem.

Submitted by rpjday on Wed, 2011-02-02 13:21

Recently, a number of people have experienced the "black screen of death" boot issue with Linux, based on some problems with integrated Intel video chips. The problem was allegedly resolved but it's managed to crop up again.

If you've been running into that, and have no problem building and booting a new kernel from the source, here's a simple patch you can apply to the source that appears to solve the problem:

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c

Making serious progress on that Linux kernel programming course

Submitted by rpjday on Fri, 2010-07-09 06:32

At this point, we're about halfway through our inaugural "Introduction to Linux Kernel Programming" course. That would be the course link up there on your left. No, your other left.

Enjoy.

P.S. And just wait until you see the new web site banner graphic. Coming soon. You are going to be so jealous. Seriously.

P.P.S. If you want to keep up with course (and other) developments in real time, well, this is me on Twitter. I am now off to write the next lesson.

Android on 64-bit Fedora

Submitted by rpjday on Thu, 2010-06-10 01:06

Since I plan on getting heavily involved in Android, here are a number of wiki pages that lead the reader through various stages of getting the Android emulator running on 64-bit F12, and moving on to writing and running apps.

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