As of today, Code Composer Studio (ccs) 6 is only available for 32-bit Linux platform. The good news is that it can be installed on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu and Fedora. In this blog post, I’m going to show a few issues I came across and how to fix them on Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit. Issue 1: After the installation, when I ran the ccs, it produces some warning and error messages then quit....
I have been having issues getting X2Go running on a CentOS 6.5 box. It took me a while to figure out that the problem laid with the permission of /tmp directory. I’ll write how to solve the X2Go problem in another post. The recommended permission for /tmp is 1777. Notice that the forwarding ‘1’ is the sticky bit which only allows the owner of the file within /tmp (or the root user) to delete/rename the file....
Recently I received a A-Star 32U4 mini board from Pololu, which I’d bought during the Black Friday for just $6. Since this mico-controller board shares many similarities with Arduino Leonardo, I thought I could just upload the program using Arduino IDE by selecting Arduino Leonardo as the board type. Unfortunately, that did not work even after I tried resetting the board as suggested in the following the error message logged by Arduino IDE in the console:...
This post is a note to remind myself how to manually flash Android firmware on a Nexus device. Step 1, download the firmware to your computer. I downloaded Android 5 from: http://www.droid-life.com/2014/11/13/download-android-5-0-ota-update-nexus-5-7-10-4/ Step 2, connect Nexus 7 to the computer. Mine runs Ubuntu 14.10, and I already downloaded Android SDK. Make sure that “Developer Options” is enabled. If it’s not, go to Settings -> About tablet. Then click on “Build Number” 7 times....
On Ubuntu distro, if you see the error message in console as the following whenever you run a Gnome-based applications, chances are you had ‘overlay-scrollbar’ package previously installed but now removed. However, the configuration file which came with that package remained on your system. We can verify this with this command: rc : remove but config file still presents. On my Ubuntu desktop, this config file resides at /etc/X11/Xsession.d/81overlay-scrollbar. To correct this problem, we can purge ‘overlay-scrollbar’ package with this command:...