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(...) It could also be the first piece of the communications in progress icon thing. (...) Yeah, remove the batteries and then press the red power button. This will discharge the caps. Then put the batteries back in. I have had odd problems loading (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) The upside down arrow in the lower left sounds like the view indicator for output A - but turning the RCX off and on should clear that. The dark circle (I'm guessing in the upper right) sounds like the Datalog indicator (when all four (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Hi, There are two unknown symbols on the RCX, I wonder if anyone could help me to understand it: 1) It had this upside down arrow at the bottom left of the LCD screen. This particular RCX 2.0 brick fails to download the firmware. I tried different (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Thanks to both Tom & Bernard for your input. I noticed they have a roboball compass. Have you incorporated this with the RCX brick? Or, will it work? --thanks in advance! --Elizabeth Mabrey -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) I can't comment on the sensors, but I do have experience w/the balls. The balls are of good quality, well-balanced, and they are a brilliant IR source. (Standard light sensors see them just fine.) However, battery life is quite short (approx. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Hi I have been looking into the roboball and the sensors kit. (URL) I wonder if there is anyone out there can share the experience of using this with the RCX. What does it take to install on the RCX? Thanks in advance for your help! -- Elizabeth (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) I think we may have found a problem. This is from /var/log/messages: Mar 19 22:52:42 pitr kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 8 Mar 19 22:52:42 pitr kernel: usb 2-1: Product: LEGO USB Tower Mar 19 22:52:42 pitr (...) (20 years ago, 20-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Ok, the driver is loaded and major number 180 minor number 160 is correct. Do you see something like this: drivers/usb/misc/leg...sbtower.c: LEGO USB Tower #0 now attached to major 180 minor 160 drivers/usb/misc/leg...sbtower.c: LEGO USB Tower (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I'm pretty sure the driver is loaded, this is the output from lsmod: Module Size Used by .. legousbtower 14912 0 .. usbcore 116808 4 legousbtower,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd and I created /dev/usb/lego0 myself as a character devince with major number (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi David, (...) these are the log messages from the USB core, but I don't see any from the driver, are you sure the driver is loaded? Also, the device nowadays is supposed to be at /dev/usb/legousbtower0. If you use udev it should create that (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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