Category Archives: Hacking
Rockbox Rocks The X5
Above, you can see Rockbox running on my iAudio X5 player. The code was taken directly from today’s CVS and cross-compiled on my laptop for the Coldfire CPU. The album art patch by Nicolas Pennequin was also applied. This allows … Continue reading
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Sweet Surrender
The new DVD player for the MythTV box turned up on Friday… and turned out to exhibit the same problem: blinking lights, but no action. After disconnecting the SATA cable and the power cable a hundred times, swapping those cables … Continue reading
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Hardware Curse
The new drive for the MythTV box arrived today and works! Well, let’s not be hasty; the BIOS recognises it. I won’t know whether it truly works until I actually try to put an operating system on it. To that … Continue reading
New Hardware On Its Way
I’ve ordered a new hard drive to replace the useless article that I couldn’t cajole into action yesterday. Let’s hope the new one shows more signs of life. I hope it’s not just a case of some obscure incompatibility between … Continue reading
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Hardware Woes Not Over
After putting the bits of our future MythTV box back together, the system now powers up, but the SATA hard drive is not detected by the motherboard. Yawn. The SATA DVD drive, on the other hand, is recognised, so I … Continue reading
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