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Hello all, My first time on this list... I've been trying to get LegOS running in my recently aquired RCX 1.0. I created an egcs cross-compiler for Solaris. I used this to compile the kernel. The IR tower is connected to an SGI (an O^2 running IRIX (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS on LinuxPPC
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(...) Ah, excellent. I saw this post when you posted it, but didn't think about it much at the time. I'll give this a shot and report back. Thanks very much. -- "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In article (...) I have had better luck with egcs-1.1.2 rather than gcc 2.95.2. I've heard that there's a problem with the way gcc 2.95.2 generates code for memcpy. I've also heard that the fix is to use an assembly version of memcpy instead of (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ok, I have some error messages here. I'm following the exact instructions in the HOWTO, except for using gcc 2.95.2 instead of egcs 1.1.2. I recall trying egcs with similar results. The make proceeds fine for a while. Then I get this message, and (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS on LinuxPPC
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I recall somebody writing to this list about a problem with LegOS under LinuxPPC, and the message seemed to imply that things were mostly happy. I can't make the compiler compile. I'm using gcc 2.95.2. The make proceeds for a good while, then I get (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling
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(...) Never mind everyone got it to work. Patrick (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am new to this message board so I am sorry if this topic has already been covered. I have been tring to make, but have been unsuccessful. The OS that I am currently trying to use is legOS 2.3. I keep recieving the error message: h8300-hms-gcc.exe: (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS battery life code
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Sorry! I forgot to post the code. Here it is: #include <dsensor.h> #include <dlcd.h> #include <conio.h> int get_battery_mv() { long b; int mv; b = BATTERY; b = ds_scale(b) * 0xABD4L; mv = b / 0x618L; return mv; } int main(int ac, char **av) { int b; (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I recently received some code in the mail that when compiled and uploaded to the RCX is supposed to give you the battery life. But when I go to compile it, legOS/util/makelx gives me the following error message: single byte different at (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor problem, again...
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I had the same problem and I solved it with a msleep(50). msleep(10) is not enough. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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if((BATTERY/0x0016)<700) dlcd_show(LCD_BATTERY_X); I always put this line on my programs. BATTERY/0x0016 gives the value in V*100 of all batteries open circuit voltage. <700 is the limit for rotation sensors to work (all the other sensors have (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sorry about the long delay, I've been away. Demo.c is inaccessable because it was written for 0.1.7 and I've not yet had the time to update it. Unfortunately, this is going to be a semi-major task and so will probably be one of the last things to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm currently trying to recreate the JavaOne Mindstorms demo which Sun used in 1999 to show off its Jini(tm) capabilities. Will let you know once I succeed - at the moment the problems are more related to Java(tm) than anything else. -thomas (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Making LegOS under Win98
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Hi All I was wondering if anyone has some sample LNP applications posted anywhere, or if there is any sample code and/or docs online. I'm having abi tof difficulty diving into it, so to speak ;-) Colin Ryan (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm trying to connect the Run button to an "event function" so that I can shut down my system nice and clean instead of the evil kill that is happening right now. It seems I can't access demo.c that is in the HOWTO, so I'm not sure how I'd do this. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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And the problem is solved. Perhaps my pains can be used for something good anyway. Perhaps the people who suggested their beautiful strcat-functions can have (at least the prettiest one) them included in a future release. And if you're wondering how (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thank you everyone who helped out. The strcat function works like a charm. Unfortunately, the memory leak is still there. I'm beginning to think it might be that the strings are never deallocated at all. I'm going to have to check so that the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Making LegOS under Win98
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I did not have the lnp.c file, so I copied it to the util/dll-src directory. It did not change anything. Then I downloaded and installed the CVS version. It still gave the same errors. This is exactly what errors were specified: (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Making LegOS under Win98
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Hmm. OK, well, if you look in ../Makefile.user (which is included from demo/Makefile) on the very last line you'll see this: %.lx: %.ds1 %.ds2 $(MAKELX) $*.ds1 $*.ds2 $*.lx That is a rule to make all .lx files. So, the rule is there and should be (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Andy- 3 Questions: 1) What version are you running? 2) Where/when did you get the file from? 3) Can I see the Makefile in question? (should be legOS/demo/Makefile, also legOS/Makefile.user) Neither or these have been changed in more than two months (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Making LegOS under Win98
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Hello, I am trying to build LegOS 0.2.4 under Win98, using Paolo Masetti's instructions for cygwin. When I MAKE, it says that there are no rules to compile helloworld.lx needed by all. I looked in the makefile, and could not find a rule. I also (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New to legOS, can you get it seperately?
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(...) It is free, but it won't do you much good without an RCX- to the best of my knowledge it won't run on anything else. (...) It's not really another type of C- just a different set of libraries. Other than that, same old C. -Luis (...) ---...--- (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: SDL and legOS (was: memory left)
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Hi guys I found this tutorial about SDL. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: memory leak in string handling
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Jamie Obrien <jamien@interworx.com.au> wrote: You can't do this: (...) You probably meant char *d2 = dest; like the original author wrote. Here also: (...) You probably meant return dest; like the original author wrote. -Kekoa (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I don't know of any leaks, but this line includes the terminating \0 in the output string: (...) Try the following instead: while (*d2) d2++; Presumably if you allocated a buffer of exactly the right size for a correct strcat, you code would (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) But strcat isn't implemented in legOS is it? At least I had trouble finding it when I needed it to use in a random number generator. But this was in 0.2.3, so I don't know about 0.2.4. Tobias (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This is not, as far as I know, something that is the matter with legos, but rather with my C programming skills. I'm trying to write the function strcat, but apparantly I'm losing memory somewhere. If anyone can see any apparant leak, please let me (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.4 working under WinNT 4(SP5) and Win2K
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"Luis Villa" <liv@duke.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.SOL.3.91.1...uke.edu... (...) This (...) It's a must, Luis... ;-) (...) file (...) Step (...) Strange (famous programming quotation)... ;-) Can I have your modification to test them on my (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) All you can figure out is an estimate of the power supply voltage, which I'd guess doesn't correlate all that robustly to battery life. -Kekoa (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, Is there a way to find out the battery life on the RCX in legOS? I checked this group and the documentation, and I can't find this info. Thanks, Nils (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.4 working under WinNT 4(SP5) and Win2K
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(...) Right, I understood that part, but I geuss that I understood that you meant uploading via some other method besides firmdl3/dll. Sorry, yesterday was not a good day for my brain ... Nils (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.4 working under WinNT 4(SP5) and Win2K
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(...) I've noted that in bash under cygnwin, you need to type: ./firmdl3 ../boot/legos.srec and ./dll ../demo/helloworld.lx Bye, Paolo. --- Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do. (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.4 working under WinNT 4(SP5) and Win2K
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When I said "Command Prompt", I meant the Windows MS DOS (formerly) command prompt. When I said "Cygwin", I meant the bash command prompt gotten by executing the Cygwin B20 program. So, when I say "upload using the Command Prompt", I meant I had to (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) What do you mean by 'upload using the Cmd Prompt'? Nils (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.4 working under WinNT 4(SP5) and Win2K
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(...) My fault. (...) Personal choice, here. I keep several versions on my machine, and since I created the tarballs, it says 0.2.4. If that breaks the cygwin installs, well, then, I guess I'll change it :( (...) Paolo? This is your area of (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS 0.2.4 working under WinNT 4(SP5) and Win2K
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First, many thanks to those who have worked so hard to make this happen. And to those who kept trying to answer all of my questions while trying to install the previous versions. As the subject suggests, I've got legOS working under both my Win NT (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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