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Slackware Linux 12.0 on the Dell XPS m1330

I’ve just written an article about running Linux on the Dell XPS m1330 laptop. It’s long and should have lasting value (I hope!) so I didn’t type it into this blog entry. Instead it’s available here. The quick summary is that I think it’s a great laptop and Linux runs really well on it. Bravo […]

Suspend not as suspenseful as once thought

Shock! A blog post that doesn’t have anything to do with SD cards. My personal life has been rather hectic over the last few weeks so I’ve had precious litte time to do any real hacking, but I did manage to find time yesterday to get Linux up and running on my new work laptop. […]

Updated kernel for maemo 3.2 (4.2007.26)

I managed to find a few minutes and put together the promised patch series for the latest n800 firmware. This series adds support for MMC 4.x wide-bus support and restores 48MHz highspeed support. I did some basic testing with my n800 and confirmed that transfer speeds are now back to what they were with my […]

Missing MMC/SD features in the latest n800 kernel

As promised last weekend, here are the results of my investigations into the latest kernel in the 2007.26-8 kernel. As I previously observed, the transfer speed is capped at 24MHz even though the device is capable of operating at 48MHz. This cuts the maximum transfer rate of high-speed SD and MMC cards. Apparently this was […]

Latest n800 firmware includes SDHC support

I’ve been on holiday for the last week and a half, so I missed the firmware update while I was away, but I’m sure most of you are aware that a new firmware for the n800 is out and that is includes SDHC support. This means that you don’t need a custom kernel with my […]

VMware Workstation 6.0

Christian and Alex have already beaten me to pointing out that the latest and greatest release of VMware Workstation is now out in the wild, but I’d still like to take a moment and congratulate their, and the rest of the team’s, efforts…

SDHC kernel for maemo 3.1 (3.2007.10)

Unsurprisingly, people have been pretty anxious to get an updated SDHC enabled kernel for the latest n800 firmware release…

Updated SDHC/MMC4 enabled kernel for the n800

Since my last post with my updated n800 kernel, I’ve spent some time looking at a troublesome MMC card – it’s a Transcend 4GB MMCplus card…

The story of a humble codec

Here’s another tale that I’ve been meaning to tell for a while. I think it’s the last one for now. Way back in Workstation 5, we introduced the ability to record movies of activity in a virtual machine, and to this end we devised our own codec. Now, that’s probably enough to generate a hail […]

Unbounded growth

As some you may have been aware, this year’s XDevConf was held at the beginning of the month (and much thanks to Sun and Stuart Kreitman for putting it on!) and I was fortunate to be there for some of the talks and to give a small presentation of my own of the Virtual Multihead feature in the up coming VMware Workstation 6.0…