sdodji is currently certified at Master level.

Name: Dodji Seketeli
Member since: 2001-10-13 08:44:55
Last Login: 2008-05-04 07:11:17

FOAF RDF Share This

Homepage: http://www.seketeli.org/dodji

Notes: I spend my free time mostly hacking on nemiver these days.

Projects

Recent blog entries by sdodji

Syndication: RSS 2.0

15 May 2008 »

upgrading my Thinkpad T42

I have recently changed the hard drive of my 5 years old T42 Thinkpad laptop. I had a 30 gb hard drive and that was obviously not enough to compile all the things I want to compile. Just to give an idea, I want to have xorg and nemiver jhbuilds as well as OpenEmbedded and OpenMoko builds around. If you had the fact that I use ccache extensively, I really needed more disk space.

So I went to memorysuppliers.com and ordered a hard drive of 160 GB. They did a very a good job in sending the disk very quickly. I backed up my home directory by simply using the excellent rsync program to save stuff on an external hard drive connected to the laptop via USB.

Then I followed the instructions here to remove the old disk and replace it with the new one.
After that, I just reinstalled a brand new GNU/Linux system and recovered my backed up data.

Everything went smoothly and took around 2h. Pretty neat.

I did also upgrade the ram to 2Gig a couple of months ago so compiling C++ programs is quite OK on this 5 years old machine now :-)

Syndicated 2008-05-15 08:18:00 (Updated 2008-05-15 08:44:00) from Dodji

15 May 2008 »

DNS problems.

I have been unreachable at seketeli dot org since yesterday I believe. It should be back soon. So if you sent me an email that did not arrive, please try again shortly.

The reason of that failure is that my hosting provider (online.net) did change his DNS server addresses and I forgot to forward the information to my registrar which is gandi.net. Shame on me. Especially because I was notified about the DNS address change something like a year ago. Everything should be back in order soonish. I am sorry for the annoyance.

Syndicated 2008-05-15 07:35:00 (Updated 2008-05-15 07:40:58) from Dodji

1 May 2008 »

A new place to hang my hat

Yesterday was my last day as an OpenedHand employee. Working at OpenedHand has been a breeze, really. The crew there is an impressive pool of clever geeks. A high density of skills, enthousiasm and willingness to do the right thing. Clearly, there is no doubt that amazing things are going to be popping up from the OpenedHand towers. Ciao fellows, and thank you for the warm and fruitful atmosphere.

Now I have to write the coming pages of my personal history. I have been given the chance and honour to settle at Red Hat, in the tools group. I am really looking forward to working with the bright folks there, and keep on modestly helping to shape the future of Free Software as much as I can.

Syndicated 2008-05-01 15:53:00 (Updated 2008-05-01 16:09:41) from Dodji

29 Apr 2008 »

nemiver debugger article on fosswire

I have been extremely lazy lately concerning writting about nemiver. Maybe that's because I just prefer writting code rather than articles ? :-)

Fortunately some nice people put together an introduction article about nemiver.

Maybe at some point I should start writting a serie of simple articles presenting interesting features of the debugger.

Syndicated 2008-04-29 09:03:00 (Updated 2008-04-29 09:11:03) from Dodji

5 Feb 2008 »

Xglamo: the X server of the neo GTA02 device

The GTA02 hardware of the OpenMoko project sports amongst other things the Glamo3362 GPU from smedia.

I have been working on an Kdrive based X server, dedicated to that glamo chip: Xglamo.

I basically took over the job done by Chia-I Wu, aka Olv (man, get yourself a blog ;-) ) in putting together an X server for that chip.

I did hack on bringing support of hardware acceleration in areas like blitting, solid fills, RandR support and XVideo so far.

For blitting and solid fills, we did start using the Kaa acceleration architecture. It seems to be pretty robust and did speed up things like scrolling a fair bit.

For RandR acceleration I hacked the kernel framebuffer driver to make it support hardware assisted rotation and fleshed out its resolution setting code. With that setup, I just made the Xglamo RandR extension implementation use that shiny new kernel framebuffer rotation and resolution setting capabilities.

The XVideo extension driver exposes a textured video port that supports clipping and scaling for planar YUV 4:2:0 frames. I am still working on supporting parameters settings like brightness, saturation and so on. For now, I can play videos using mplayer on the device, or even launching totem on my desktop and making it display its output on Xglamo server running on the device. The basics are in the box.

All that code is already integrated in regular OpenMoko builds that you either compile yourself or grab from the daily builds directories.

There should be more to come on this topic in the coming days and weeks. In any case, I try to sent regular updates to the openmoko-devel list.

So stay tuned :-)

Syndicated 2008-02-05 08:41:00 (Updated 2008-02-05 09:17:29) from Dodji

114 older entries...

 

sdodji certified others as follows:

  • sdodji certified sdodji as Master
  • sdodji certified DV as Master
  • sdodji certified loic as Master
  • sdodji certified fxn as Master
  • sdodji certified mathieu as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified sab39 as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified Telsa as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified jas as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified Guillaume as Master
  • sdodji certified juhtolv as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified niksilver as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified lerdsuwa as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified thomasd as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified jsogo as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified villate as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified Jordi as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified davidfv as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified sulaiman as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified Senra as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified alan as Master
  • sdodji certified csm as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified aero6dof as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified MikeCamel as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified jao as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified MartBrooks as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified Mulad as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified Marooned as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified vicious as Master
  • sdodji certified ask as Master
  • sdodji certified trs80 as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified cerquide as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified amars as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified jf as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified adulau as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified penso as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified redowl as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified forrest as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified olandgren as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified andrei as Master
  • sdodji certified jfleck as Master
  • sdodji certified hch as Master
  • sdodji certified Capzilla as Master
  • sdodji certified neil as Master
  • sdodji certified thomasvs as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified rasmus as Master
  • sdodji certified nymia as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified shlomif as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified gerv as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified davej as Master
  • sdodji certified jwb as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified mpawlo as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified fuzzyping as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified ali as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified salemioche as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified rkrishnan as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified atai as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified tflynn as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified rodolphe as Master
  • sdodji certified abraham as Master
  • sdodji certified ianmacd as Master
  • sdodji certified gary as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified dmerrill as Master
  • sdodji certified gman as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified SteveMallett as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified jules as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified chipx86 as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified daniels as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified jono as Master
  • sdodji certified ariya as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified selerius as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified chalst as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified logic as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified aleksey as Master
  • sdodji certified mx as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified mpr as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified spicyjack as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified julian as Master
  • sdodji certified vdv as Master
  • sdodji certified salmoni as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified hubicka as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified Denny as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified xmldoc as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified bytesplit as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified Uche as Master
  • sdodji certified nixnut as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified jenglish as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified mwh as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified dobey as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified benoit as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified kbreit as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified davidw as Master
  • sdodji certified Rich as Master
  • sdodji certified sej as Master
  • sdodji certified Stevey as Master
  • sdodji certified chakie as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified murrayc as Master
  • sdodji certified Lolindrath as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified TheCorruptor as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified tcurtis as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified LotR as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified hadess as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified madscientist as Master
  • sdodji certified afayolle as Master
  • sdodji certified madhatter as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified mascot as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified Miod as Master
  • sdodji certified r4f as Master
  • sdodji certified MichaelCrawford as Master
  • sdodji certified hub as Master
  • sdodji certified Iain as Master
  • sdodji certified rlevin as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified sand as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified gc as Master
  • sdodji certified berend as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified ib as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified ike as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified jbucata as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified moshez as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified nhoizey as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified mcg as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified Mysidia as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified yeupou as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified strider as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified dajobe as Master
  • sdodji certified fcrozat as Master
  • sdodji certified Kouran as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified dsandras as Master
  • sdodji certified linn as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified kz as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified cwryu as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified seb128 as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified sri as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified jarashi as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified pbor as Master
  • sdodji certified Uraeus as Master
  • sdodji certified cinamod as Master
  • sdodji certified donscarletti as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified louie as Master
  • sdodji certified domi as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified bolsh as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified toonsy as Apprentice
  • sdodji certified herzi as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified fabrice as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified TazForEver as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified athos10 as Journeyer

Others have certified sdodji as follows:

  • sdodji certified sdodji as Master
  • fxn certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • mathieu certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • jao certified sdodji as Apprentice
  • davidfv certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • sulaiman certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Senra certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Guillaume certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • redowl certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • cerquide certified sdodji as Apprentice
  • wardv certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • mpawlo certified sdodji as Apprentice
  • davej certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • rkrishnan certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • chipx86 certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • ariya certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • DV certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • mpr certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • xmldoc certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • bytesplit certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Uche certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • kbreit certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Stevey certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • sand certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • madhatter certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • mascot certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Mysidia certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • yeupou certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • nixnut certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • strider certified sdodji as Master
  • fcrozat certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • linn certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Nyco certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • domi certified sdodji as Master
  • murrayc certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Uraeus certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • Kouran certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • seb128 certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • pbor certified sdodji as Master
  • jarashi certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • elanthis certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • cinamod certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • donscarletti certified sdodji as Master
  • daverd certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • mterry certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • hub certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • bolsh certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • mathrick certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • fabrice certified sdodji as Master
  • athos10 certified sdodji as Master
  • bdauvergne certified sdodji as Master
  • lucasr certified sdodji as Master
  • jserv certified sdodji as Master

[ Certification disabled because you're not logged in. ]

New Advogato Features

FOAF updates: Trust rankings are now exported, making the data available to other users and websites. An external FOAF URI has been added, allowing users to link to an additional FOAF file.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!

X
Share this page